The five most common excuses for not upgrading Windows XP

Posted by Varcht on Sunday March 23, 2014 @11:12PM
from the independent.ie dept.

http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/the-five-most-common-excuses-for-not-upgrading-windows-xp-30116403.html

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Re:The five most common excuses for not upgrading Windows XP by Varcht on Sunday March 23, 2014 @11:31PM (#7456535)

I'm been running the same XP install since 1/11/2004 as my primary machine. It has run on several mother board/cpus and been cloned across HD's numerous times too. It's going to be very difficult to give it up. I have a Vista and a Win8 boxes hooked up to the kvm here at the desk but the XP box is like an old friend.

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Re:The five most common excuses for not upgrading Windows XP by anonymouse123 on Sunday March 23, 2014 @11:50PM (#7456581)

It's such an epic security risk, I can't understand why you'd want to risk using XP?

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Re:The five most common excuses for not upgrading Windows XP by Varcht on Monday March 24, 2014 @12:18AM (#7456670)

Its firewalled and scanned regularly, browse with Chrome, careful with emails and downloads, so far so good? I don't do anything anything critical on it anyways. It will be retired soon though.

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