While clinging to the 11-year-old OS after Microsoft issues its last security patch in April is defensible, the security risks are going to keep mounting.
From Computerworld:
From Computerworld:
About those numbers: Net Applications states that in December, XP was still running on 29% of all desktop and laptop PCs. By some counts, XP still accounts for 32% of all Windows systems. That's a heck of a lot of users.Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: You can keep using XP for another year, but do you really want to?
One reason users haven't switched is that Windows 8.x is garbage. There are others. One is that XP machines simply still do their job. I'm a big believer in the maxim, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," and many XP users believe that too.
