Timeline for Security Reasons to upgrade from Windows XP Needed [duplicate]
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| Apr 28, 2016 at 14:25 | comment | added | adudley | lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/thanks/xp-compliance-wp.shtml | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 14:21 | comment | added | adudley | Just to add, yes we can discuss all day long that this should have been done, and as you quite rightly point out, there were some compatibility problems that never got resolved. Still to this day actually. but we need to force the issue... it would seem the answer to my question is no. Nothing official has been put forward as a reason. A white paper from some organisation would be ideal. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 13:56 | history | closed |
karel Máté Juhász bwDraco Ramhound DavidPostill♦ |
Duplicate of What are the potential security issues when I keep using Windows XP? [closed] | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 12:16 | answer | added | Ladislav Louka | timeline score: -1 | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 12:07 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 28, 2016 at 12:04 | comment | added | Frank Thomas | Note, it wasn't so much that XP was loved, but that Vista was hated especially in 2006. Once 2009 came around, everyone had been forced to upgrade their printers and video cards due to failures anyway, the transition to Win7 was much less painful. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 12:00 | comment | added | user1751825 | Most software companies have long since dropped support for XP. You won't be able to upgrade the security software, and the OS itself obviously is not secure. It's very irresponsible to run a company this way. Might be time for the CEO to be put out to pasture. | |
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| Apr 28, 2016 at 11:56 | comment | added | Mokubai♦ | There have been several recent news stories of major institutions suffering losses due to running outdated and insecure software (theregister.co.uk/2016/04/22/healthcare_insecurity) and as most major web browsers no longer support WinXP you will be making it easier to attack the machine by having an insecure browser with potentially insecure plugins running on an insecure machine. That's not a combination I would want to see in any machine I connect to the Internet. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 11:55 | comment | added | user1751825 | That's quite shocking that a company with 1000 PC's would still be running a hopelessly outdated, unsupported OS. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 11:52 | comment | added | user1751825 | Be aware not all computers can run Windows 10. I have one running Windows 7 that can't be upgraded to 10 because the CPU isn't compatible. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 11:51 | comment | added | adudley | There is some serious cost in upgrading over 1000 computers... and unfortunately, 'something bad might happen in the future that we don't really know how bad it will be but it might just happen and then we're stuffed' just isn't cutting it... I've tried, they don't listen... :( | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 11:50 | comment | added | user1751825 | Microsoft probably isn't pushing this very hard, as there's not many people still running such an old OS. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 11:48 | comment | added | user1751825 | Why do you need justification. Who are you trying to convince? | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 11:45 | history | asked | adudley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |