[AT] OT - Windows XP

[charlie hill]

I'm running Win 7 and have it on auto-update which means I automatically
get the latest updates of IE.  For a while I was going to web sites that 
would
tell me they didn't support my version of the browser and that I needed to
update to at least Ver. 7.  I was running Ver. 10 at the time.  They were 
the one's
behind the curve not me.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mattias Kessén
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 4:57 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Windows XP

Problems are already occurring and will increase for example with Xp you
can only update to IE ver 8 but some banks demand ver. 11.

Mattias

Typed with large fingers on a small screen
Den 20 mar 2014 21:37 skrev "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>:

> On 3/20/2014 9:53 AM, Mike wrote:
> > Hi guys, sorry for the OT post, but I know there are a few guys on here
> > that are up on the latest IT stuff. Long story short, my Dad read an
> > article by Kim Komando in last Sundays paper regarding the end of
> > Microsoft's support for Windows XP on April 14th. The article basically
> > stated that if you haven't already, you should drop XP like a hot potato
> > and migrate to Windows 7 or 8 because it will become very vulnerable to
> > attack.  His machine is an older Dell that won't support Windows 7, so
> > the only option is a new computer. Are these security concerns more hype
> > than substance, or are they legitimate concerns?
>
> Its true Microsoft is discontinuing support for XP in April. I received
> an alert about it. I still have XP on my old desktop and had no worries
> about continuing to use it.
> I have not heard the stories about any security concerns though. I will
> have to look into that as I had no plans to change up . I have Windows 7
> on this laptop and am happy
> with it but heard that Windows 8 is not something I would want.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> >
>
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