[AccessD] Future of Windows XP

For my personal machines I don't feel much of a need to upgrade any of the
remaining XP boxes to another OS. But for machines in a business
environment of a publicly traded company I feel there is an obligation to
remain current and therefore patched. Maybe not on day one after the end of
maintenance but within a reasonable time after that for any machine
connected to company servers to remain as a potential gateway into the
network would be looked at negatively by auditors from a financial or a
security perspective.

That said, since I use my personal laptop to VPN into our corporate systems
I am now wondering if I will need to do something with that to follow our
corporate policies.

GK


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> That about sums it up.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John R Bartow" <jbartow at winhaven.net>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <
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> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 8:49:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Future of Windows XP
>
> I don't doubt it for a minute. MS has done it for every version of
> everything they produced. I also don't doubt for a minute that I will be
> supporting Windows XP for years afterward. I still have clients using
> Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. The machines they run serve a specific
> purpose and are not connected to the internet - "if it ain't broke don't
> fix
> it" - just don't push your luck ;-)
>
>

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Gary Kjos
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