Windows XP SP4?
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It's kind of funny that people seem to think that the day after support ends the will suddenly be a load of new vulnerabilities found in a 13 year old O/S, considering the people you mentioned most likely never update Windows and will be running SP1/SP2 it's really a mute point. And with it's usage % dropping the will be even less motivation for hackers to try and discover vulnerabilities that have evaded them for over a decade.
Don
Unofficial one is being built on ryanvm/msfn. Best place for it, you know it'll be clean.
Don
The thing I find funny is that XP is still the second most used Operating System on the market at this time:
Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/one-week...ows-xp-still-installed-on-2769-percent-of-pcs
Kind of embarrassing for Microsoft really.
Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/one-week...ows-xp-still-installed-on-2769-percent-of-pcs
Kind of embarrassing for Microsoft really.
Caporegime
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Lots of businesses still run XP also.
That's because those are business workstations and so upgrading them would have major cost and practical problems, I.E if you upgrade them all to W8 then a Server 2003 system will have some issues, for those businesses W7 is a better choice as that gives them more time to work on upgrading their server hardware/software.
This has also impacted the uptake of Office 2013 as Outlook 2013 can't talk to Exchange 2003.
Don
Yes I know the reason, it doesn't detract from the fact that XP is still the 2nd most popular OS at the moment, after Windows 7.
It wasn't meant to detract from it, it was meant to explain it and thus why it isn't an embarrassment it's simply normal. When XP was launched most businesses were still on NT4, they later transitioned to 2000 and Vista was on the scene before XP surpassed 2000, businesses are always slow to change O/S due to the expense, inconvenience and the fact that what they have already works.
Don
From a business point of view, computers always needed to be quicker, since ~2008, in a pure business sense, hardware hasn't changed enough for a company to warrant upgrading to anything else.
A core2duo CPU will still do the job fine. Sure an i5 etc would be quicker, but why go to that expense when the product you have is working fine.
Many companies won't upgrade until things STOP working.
A core2duo CPU will still do the job fine. Sure an i5 etc would be quicker, but why go to that expense when the product you have is working fine.
Many companies won't upgrade until things STOP working.
That's what I use it for, just have Squeezebox server on it...