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I'm one of those people unfortunately. XP was all I needed for a decade. My firewall which has thousands of rules does not work with anything newer and other f
by ck2 13y ago
I'm one of those people unfortunately.
XP was all I needed for a decade. My firewall which has thousands of rules does not work with anything newer and other firewalls suck today, very badly.
I have many many programs which are licensed and I do not want to have to try to find the key for each one again, heck find the program again, only to find out it doesn't work beyond XP.
XP was just a launching UI for me, really could not care about how it looked. I have it very locked down and very tweaked.
And I really do not want to lose the months of getting something configured again. But come mid-April I won't have a choice.
- eli 13y agoMy guess is that someone will step up and continue to create patches for XP, because you're in a pretty big boat. But if I were you, I'd switch to a newer OS and run the whole XP box in a VM (note you may run into some MS licensing issues setting this up). Then at least you can slowly start migrating and at least your "main" hypervisor OS will be fully patched. Doesn't help you with the firewall, though.
- ck2 13y agoWhat blows my mind is that XP still needs constant, serious security patches after 12 years. Think about that.
- ams6110 13y agoI see constant security patches for Linux and associated userland, pretty much monthly also.
- TheSurge 13y agoIt's not because the software is necessarily "insecure", it's just because new ways of getting around protections are found every day. Plus, look at how much the technology landscape has changed since XP was introduced in 2001.