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   From: noone@nowhere.nothere.com   
      
   On 12/01/2012 19:50, poachedeggs wrote:   
   > 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'm glad I don't use those doctors, but couldn't care less whether   
   a pizza place goes out of business because of outdated and unsupported   
   software failure (or more likely criminal activity due to unfixed   
   security holes.)   
   Banks and other large institutions have their own support contracts and   
   the ones which will stay in business are already migrating to new OS   
   versions.   
   For Joe Public, I think XP will be usable for many years, but hardware   
   only lasts for so long and new hardware will simply not have XP drivers   
   written for it (this is already the case for many laptops, for example.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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