[AccessD] Future of Windows XP

Jim, here is an article which has the opposite opinion about Windows XP
security:

http://www.zdnet.com/your-perilous-future-on-windows-xp-7000019721/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539
''

Here is the lead paragraph:

"You've been getting warned for ages about the impending end of support for
XP. Things are even worse than you've heard (especially if you run Internet
Explorer). Expect a flood of new vulnerabilities and no help for them."

Doug


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Jim Dettman <jimdettman at verizon.net> wrote:

>
>  Sorry, but I think your being naïve and silly<g>.
>
>  There's been plenty of announcement about it, so they've more then covered
> their butts on it.
>
>  I think when you'll hear a lot of screaming is when Office 365 drops
> support for the POP3 protocol.  Outlook 2003 and a bunch of other mail
> clients will no longer work with it.
>
>  Besides, XP is safer; all the hackers are now focused on Windows 7 and
> 8<g>.   XP has been patched and patched.   Don't know how many security
> holes are actually left in it.
>
> Jim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> I want to say that nobody replied to assertions in my post. I am really
> curious what the rest of this group thinks Microsoft will do in terms of
> security patches for Windows XP users left behind. Am I just being silly
> and naive to think that Microsoft would not dare such users dangling in the
> wind?
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