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What do you recommend for watching/recording Cox programs including HBO instead of Windows Media which works quite well?
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Possibly, but Microsoft offers extended xp support contracts to several governments including the UK, the Netherlands and the US. Even so, as of a year ago, the US government had already upgraded 90% of their PCs that used XP. It's a huge process, considering the number of PCs that we're talking about. Software compatibility is a huge issue when it comes to upgrading, as some just doesn't work on newer operating systems. It makes for very slow going.
But even so, it's beside the point. Those extended support contracts aren't available to argentcy, so his version of XP is getting less and less secure by the day.
Read that fed govt and others will not be switching anytime soon for some of their computers and they are paying microsoft money to keep the old system working....MS is maintaining XP for some.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-navy-pays-out-millions-to-microsoft-to-keep-running-windows-xp/
http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/13/irs-pays-microsoft-for-windows-xp-support/
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/07/uk-government-microsoft-windows-xp-public-sector
http://www.itpro.co.uk/security/218...ions-to-keep-cash-machines-running-windows-xp
http://arstechnica.com/information-...ish-governments-pay-to-keep-windows-xp-alive/
I have a broken, fails to update, Vista on my old desktop. I'll probably wipe it and install Windows 7 from Micro Center and upgrade to 10 sometime in the future.
BTW, my fed computer has been 7 for quite a while. The bad thing is that it is still restricted to Explorer 9 which doesn't even work with any number of web sites today. And all of our email is stripped down to text, no formating, not hot links, no html.
BTW, my fed computer has been 7 for quite a while. The bad thing is that it is still restricted to Explorer 9 which doesn't even work with any number of web sites today. And all of our email is stripped down to text, no formating, not hot links, no html.
I was in the same boat until a couple weeks ago, when our IT group finally realized that several of their own internet applications wouldn't even run on IE9. We got permission to download Chrome.
Your pretty naive aren't you. Microsoft has still been sending out XP updates since they realized lots of business' still use the software. If your not a moron, run a good anti-virus and maleware program its fine.
My company's XP to Win7 migration was pretty crazy considering we had over 200,000 devices in the enterprise to upgrade but some of the biggest issues was just getting departments to sign off on their testing because it wasn't usually compatibility issues but just the fear of the unknown that I think caused more of the issues than anything. People fear change when the familiar is doing what they currently need it to do. I see it when we end support of a certain model laptop (usually every 4-5 years is our lifecycle) where people fight you tooth and nail to give up their old one because they like it and it works for them even though you have a brand new laptop that you know is much better than what they have. I'm hearing the goal is to be able to start sending out new machines here with Windows 10 by next summer as they are optimistic we won't see nearly the amount of issues we had to work through going from 32bit XP to 64bit Win7.
Our biggest issues always seem to be in-house developed web applications because too many times they've been coded so that they only work right with a very particular version of Java or they don't upgrade the backend to be compatible with never browser versions. We're still dealing with groups now to get everything functional in IE11 before the end of the year since Microsoft will end support of it in January. Funny thing is some of these groups that are dragging their feet to get their in-house web applications compatible start complaining about external sites they need to use no longer working in IE8 so hopefully that is the kick in the butt they need to finally push their backend developers to get it done.
Our biggest issues always seem to be in-house developed web applications because too many times they've been coded so that they only work right with a very particular version of Java or they don't upgrade the backend to be compatible with never browser versions. We're still dealing with groups now to get everything functional in IE11 before the end of the year since Microsoft will end support of it in January. Funny thing is some of these groups that are dragging their feet to get their in-house web applications compatible start complaining about external sites they need to use no longer working in IE8 so hopefully that is the kick in the butt they need to finally push their backend developers to get it done.
I guess my question is unless someone had a very particular reason why they must still run XP why they would not have upgraded by now? By now anyone that had something that they needed to either update or replace with a comparable product that will run Windows 7 or higher has had plenty of time to do so considering Windows 7 first came out in October 2009. I know our company does UAT testing with the beta and release candidates in advance so they can hit the ground running building a new image as soon as the production version is released. Technology is always changing, seems like the ones that fight the changes are the ones put in bad spots when they are finally out of options
The Govt pays millions each year for MS to keep XP going on WEAPON SYSTEMS, where upgrading to 7/8/10 would likely cost billions in upgrades to hardware and firmware. My govt PC runs Windows 7.
As far as when I'm going to upgrade to 10, I'm doing the desktop first because I hate Win8 and I want to get rid of it that badly and play around with 10 a little bit. If it's as good as promised, I'll upgrade my laptop which is currently running Win7.
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Go check your updates. When was the last security update you got from Microsoft? What was the update ID? (usually starts with KB29...) Check the date.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates-for-windows-xp/
From what I've read, even the last out of band patch issued by microsoft was available via this method.
