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poachedeggs wrote in news:6d1c3f96-cb41-4866-
b282-34042063409f@t30g2000vbx.googlegroups.com:
> I read yesterday that though the Updates will stop for XP in April
> 2014 downgrading from Windows 7 (for whatever reason someone would do
> this) will be enabled till 2020 and therefore it won't be 'obsolete'
> till 2020. I can't remember if this was Wikipedia or some 50/50
> reliable site. I knew about the 2014 thing but what should it mean in
> practice that there will be no security updates from source? I often
> see Windows 98 used in doctor's surgeries, through the windows of
> pizza places and so on, sometimes in online situations and sometimes
> not. Will it be that banks and the like will have to get shot of XP in
> the run up to 2014 or are Microsoft's own security measures
> overemphasised? Would it be stupid to be online up to 2020 using XP or
> are the patches more of a precaution than anything?
>
I still use dos 6.22, win3.11 for workgroups, and win98.
(besides my internetbuggy on xp pro).
The 2014 thing just means that from then on, your XP
will be stable, as long as it has a computer to run on,
and M$ stops de-stabelizing the computer weekly..
It might be smart, to search the web for a sreamlined boot
cd recipe.
Support stopping does not disable your computer(yet).
I have streamlined xp and SP2 and and downloaded the big
sp3 executables,WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe and
xpsp3_5512.080413-2113_usa_x86fre_spcd.iso.
The last one a CD, is a general purpose updater for comp clusters.
So I say, let M$ do its worst.
I only wonder, when will they stop providing the activation
routine.
If they stop that they might be the target of a big class action.
Hmm... google "save activation" ? Its suppoost te be a file somewhere....
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