Except for our government who are paying MS an exorbitant amount of money to keep support up... <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/dutch-government-pays-millions-to-extend-microsoft-xp-support-7000028116/" rel="nofollow">http://www.zdnet.com/dutch-government-pays-millions-to-exten...</a>
Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, which is essentially a stripped down Windows XP SP3, will be supported with security updates until 2019. Realistically, as an individual you can't buy it but as far as I can tell you can use the evaluation version (<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11196" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1119...</a>) for up to 120 days for free, which may be useful for VMs and the like.
Where I work we still have business specific apps that run only on XP and our suppliers have no plan on upgrading them (unless we fund the entire project, which they will happily resell full price to over companies).<p>This is a clear example of what the lack of competition does
Technically security updates are released at 10am PST on Patch Tuesday. <a href="http://amirunningxp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://amirunningxp.com/</a> got this wrong (they used midnight instead).
I would like to read an article about whether or not an up-to-date anti-virus is going to protect users (how and why) as a lot of IT people defend that position.
Today On April 8 2014, the decade long support from Microsoft for Windows XP will be terminated. This means no more security updates, patches, or technical support for the popular OS, which is still running on 30% of all computers. It's very interesting to see how it affect the XP user who are using it, after the end of XP support era. Research by EHI intelligence revels that 85% of England’s healthcare system IT systems were still using Windows XP.
While I don't blame Microsoft for ending support (they have been very accomodating already), but I find it strange of them to leave so many users stranded. Especially now there's several alternatives to Windows, all requiring a similar learning curve and migration pains to that of moving to Windows 7 or 8.<p>Personally, when people have asked me about it I usually point them to Linux Mint, using their existing computer - not because I'm a fan of Linux, but I'd feel bad advising them to spend 100's on a new computer, when their current one works perfectly (physically).<p>Apart from someone who plays The Sims 2, I've had no complaints.
I've heard a few people saying that they're staying with Windows XP in their company internally. The idea being that as the internal computers share a single access point to the Internet that they can filter everything incoming there.<p>This doesn't really sound correct and obviously it won't help for physically bringing in USB sticks etc but I'm still interested to know what others think here?<p>Is there about to be a large number of 3rd party firewalls trying to protect internet computers from Windows XP exploits?
We have internal web based apps that require IE 7 and Windows XP due to Active X controls. We've moved to Windows 7 with virtual XP machines. To prevent internet access we've stopped any traffic at the firewall with the virtual machines.<p>We think this will work to prevent internet based attacks, but realize we're still vulnerable to physical attacks through media. It was the best we can do given our reliance on the older system.<p>Any other holes in this other than the physical issue?
Interesting, the company I work for has made a real push to get off of XP, but not a peep about Office 2003. I guess they don't want to spend that money.
"Alternatively, you can choose to use a different operating system, such as one of the many Linux variants, or even purchase a new computer running OS X or Chrome OS. If you prefer mobile operating systems as a replacement to your machine, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry OS are all viable options, but you’ll naturally have to buy a new device."<p>I really appreciated this comment and the following part about IE8 and Chrome. Well done MS.