[AccessD] Windows 8

Hi John:

For those of us who are still languishing on XP, Microsoft to the rescue.

First XP will warn you so watch out for those downloads as the MS warning is more to scare the clients to move on. (I will to talking to them about taking the Linux challenge ;-)) Now Microsoft is doing what they should have done right at the get-go...giving out a free upgrade tool; not just upgrade to Windows 8.x but also to Windows 7! :-) IMHO, the tool should have copied the XP system to an ISO file and then automate a process that would install a virtual drive and the source ISO, on the destination computer. This would allow the client to slowly wean themselves (or not) off XP, while still secure and leaving them productive in the meantime. 

"Microsoft is also releasing a free transfer tool later this week that’s designed to migrate data from an old PC to a new device running Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1."

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/3/5465208/windows-xp-support-pop-up-messages

Jim