[dba-Tech] Dire warnings

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Sep 23 12:00:14 CDT 2013


I guess every hardware company along with MS is salivating at the prospects of XP's death...so much money!

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:33:57 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Dire warnings

Where the message came from is the key.

FUD to sell new hardware.

-- 
Stuart

On 22 Sep 2013 at 12:37, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> Hi All:
> 
> I have been receiving warnings similar to the following link:
> 
> http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/xp-nightmare-whitepaper.shtml?elq
> _mid=3168&Jelq_cid=848849&v=BCC1h_WP_Nightmare&ls=ENT_HL_MOB_XP_BCC1h&s
> f=701a0000000ewMV&ecid=CLENO000000848849&elq=0cc0db94d81b44ecbbfc35a10b
> 2d2746 
> 
> Where the above message came from is curious to me but there seems to
> be a number of such messages going out and they seem like just some
> scare tactic. Some of my client's have also been receiving them and
> they are all getting very concerned. 
> 
> They can always move up to a later version of Windows but I have been
> assembling a Linux replacement build in-case the price is more than
> they want to pay. I just don't know which way to go on this but will
> have to play it by ear. 
> 
> Any suggestions or comments will be great-fully accepted.
> 
> Jim 
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