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Poll: Will Microsoft really end Windows XP support on April 8??

Will Microsoft really end Windows XP support on April 8?

  • That’s it. No more updates

  • MS will cave because of public reaction

  • MS will only issue patches for internet affecting exploits

  • The government will force them to provide critical updates

  • Pie

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If people haven't migrated away from XP already, they're unlikely to do so in a year despite the company's warnings. A lot of these computers are operating in corporate environments doing god knows what. I shudder to think of them being left naked to security exploits.

If Microsoft were smart, they'd start charging their corporate clients a subscription for updates to legacy operating systems. Might as well make a few bucks off the Luddites. Combine that with incentives to upgrade to newer platforms.
 
Can people let XP die already? I hated those employees who made us support their P4/Windows XP systems because of some stupid obscure program that only their department uses.
 
mmntech said:
If people haven't migrated away from XP already, they're unlikely to do so in a year despite the company's warnings. A lot of these computers are operating in corporate environments doing god knows what. I shudder to think of them being left naked to security exploits.

If Microsoft were smart, they'd start charging their corporate clients a subscription for updates to legacy operating systems. Might as well make a few bucks off the Luddites. Combine that with incentives to upgrade to newer platforms.
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If they are going to patch them for corporate they should do it for home users also. Charge 39.99 for two years, only purchasable online. However, no usability updates, just security. Charging 39.99 will encourage some people to buy a new machine, since their XP machines might not last two years anyway. By 2016 Windows XP machines will be 10 years old, at least the ones sold in stores. By then most of them will have died. Plus, Windows 9 which should be better than Win8 if MS learned anything will be for sale.
 
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I bet they'll cave again. This is like the 40th time they tell us they will stop support, only for it to be extended again. MS is not very good at sticking to their word when it comes to any kind of dates.
 
It's all the computer manufactures fault. They built the XP machines too good. Fortunately for them they are hard at work rectifying the situation. CPU's welded to the mobo coming? Check.
 
I wonder if some third party websites might take x86 Vista/7 Updates and recompile them for XP somehow.


I really don't see M$ extending it this time around, and TBH I don't blame them. When they pull the plug in April it will have been 12 years and 6 months since it's release and you cannot reasonably expect any software company to support a mainstream OS for that long.


Granted with such a high market share, it might not be that unlikely for M$ to patch MAJOR issues after April to prevent a Blaster worm type event from happening.

However one solution for XP users who need to run XP for whatever reason might be to run some kind of stripped down sandbox program (like virtual PC, but much more lightweight) to run an internet browser and email client.
 
If I found an exploit I might be sitting on it and release it on April 9th

If that happens there will be holy hell breaking loose
 
mmntech said:
If people haven't migrated away from XP already, they're unlikely to do so in a year despite the company's warnings. A lot of these computers are operating in corporate environments doing god knows what. I shudder to think of them being left naked to security exploits.

If Microsoft were smart, they'd start charging their corporate clients a subscription for updates to legacy operating systems. Might as well make a few bucks off the Luddites. Combine that with incentives to upgrade to newer platforms.
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Or they're running industrial hardware with drivers that need to be renovated in order to work with Windows 7.

We just bought two new pieces of equipment at work, more than $100k total. Both of them run PCs with Windows XP. One manufacturer says that a move to Windows 7 is in the works, though they don't know if it will be ready by April. The other won't even offer a timeline.
Which sucks, because IT intends to physically remove those systems from the network after XP's support ends. I don't know why it's not possible to put in some kind of access restriction that would completely prevent access between them and anything outside of the company's intranet.

One of our CMs has a solder reflow oven that's still running some version of DOS 6.




Away said:
Let it die...




...then give us 7 SP2. 😉
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And do "something" to the dev team for Windows 8.

Sending people to Mars with one-way tickets is a way to save a lot of money on that particular project.

Just sayin'.
 
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oldsmoboat said:
Our last corporate XP user just got a new Windows 7 laptop yesterday.
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Hah!

I was the last XP user at our location.

I got to pick my own computer. Just got my Win 7 professional computer up and working yesterday by migrating everything over.

I said I didn't mind using XP but management wanted everyone off XP.
 
I think they'll cave. I don't see them letting ~30% of the worlds computers get infected.

But just in case I'm wrong, make sure all your relatives have upgraded their old computers to Linux.
 
BladeVenom said:
I think they'll cave. I don't see them letting ~30% of the worlds computers get infected.

But just in case I'm wrong, make sure all your relatives have upgraded their old computers to Linux.
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Yeah, that's my thinking. When they dropped support for Win98 almost no one was using it. The more MS tries to panic people into upgrading the bigger a public issue it becomes. And that 30 percent number will become more well known and people will have a wtf moment.

hmmm....
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241429/China_has_a_massive_Windows_XP_problem

By the time of XP's retirement in April, around 10% of all U.S. computers will be running the OS; in China, 65% of companies will do so
(from a year ago)

That doesn't seem right. I think the 30 percent number sounds right for the US.

Can anyone else verify the numbers?
 
Microsoft should end support. No one should still be running XP or Server 2003. They've both been superseded by vastly superior operating systems (7 and 2008 R2/2012 respectively).

Anyone still running XP or 2003 is doing so out of pure laziness and should be turkey slapped.
 
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