Windows XP - 1 year of support remaining
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So as of today there is now 1 year (plus a couple of hours) until Microsoft finally tap the nail into the coffin of Windows XP and Office 2003. Since XP was such a significant OS for many I thought it would be interesting to have a thread where people can discuss this and the progress they have made, if any, in upgrading. Do you have a plan? Perhaps you are gonna keep XP until the hardware dies or you can afford a new PC? Or maybe even move to another platform like Linux?
All of my personal PCs are sorted as of a few months ago, but in my workplace it is a totally different story. I'd estimate of the entire estate probably about 50% (couple of thousand) is still running XP and its going to take a huge amount of resources to work through them. Some of the clients are the kind that will refuse to spend any money on IT unless it is something that is immediately effecting them so I can see the next 12 months being extremely challenging both in terms of workload and trying to reiterate to people how old some of their equipment actually is.
So what about you guys (and girls)?
All of my personal PCs are sorted as of a few months ago, but in my workplace it is a totally different story. I'd estimate of the entire estate probably about 50% (couple of thousand) is still running XP and its going to take a huge amount of resources to work through them. Some of the clients are the kind that will refuse to spend any money on IT unless it is something that is immediately effecting them so I can see the next 12 months being extremely challenging both in terms of workload and trying to reiterate to people how old some of their equipment actually is.
So what about you guys (and girls)?
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Personally I have moved from Win XP to Win 7 and Linux now so only have an XP HDD reformatted about a month ago so I can play some older games on it.
There will be a few smaller companies hanging onto Win Xp for a while
For some people they're happy and know the risks and thats fair enough but the main driving force will probably be the anti virus companies as they start to warn their customers they are stopping support on the same day as MS they'll have to do something either find a new AV that will keep on supporting XP or upgrade but given 2nd hand machines capable of running win 7 are dirt cheap it shouldn't be too much of a cost
Myself I got rid of XP on my main machine when windows 7 came out as beta, but I still got it on a second machine and it will stay on there.
I still know a few people with Xp and unless their computers go belly up they will stay with it and even then they may stay with it.
One person i know got a P4, I can't see him spending money on updating the Os on that and to be honest there is no need to, windows Xp is not going to stop working in 12 months time.
I got windows 8 on my main machine now, but some things still annoy me about it, even with a decent start menu.
Oh yes, Mint linux on Laptop.
From what I hear and read now, it still is quite a significant used OS, consumer/corporate.
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0
I know MS say they will not change the end date, but I feel they may have to do something.
Windows Blue time in June will be a key date for corporates to think about the leap.
For MS to change their mind on the dates, will come down to corporates paying for further extended support, which I doubt will happen. I expect many corporates are just hanging on for free security updates rather than any paid direct support.
As someone mentioned in a previous thread there will almost certainly be enough of a market for antivirus vendors to provide some form of limited support afterwards for those that are prepared to pay for it.
In what way? In 12 months time all that is going to happen is that MS will not provide any more updates, windows Xp will still work fine.
As been said above, what happens in 12 months time depends on third party. Some new hardware already got no drivers for Xp, but old hardware will still work.
There is still hardware that will not work with windows 8 and I mean pretty recent hardware or the drivers are still in beta.
I very much doubt not getting updates will make much impact on most people, just one less hassle
I think microsoft are banking on people getting scared and upgrading, which will probably mean getting a new PC that can run a more recent OS in a lot of cases
How so? Our particular organisation has all it's development and security handled by a multi-national IT company and we will not be migrating from XP for the foreseeable future. By foreseeable I'm talking about a 5 year cycle. We have bespoke software written specifically for the XP platform. The development costs of changing would be prohibitive. We have been told there is no imperative for us to change.
Noticed last year that a local Barclays was still using Win 2000 in branch!
For home users certainly, not sure about corporate. I suppose it depends on what drivers they can get for new machines when old ones fail.
public internet. General security update support against vulnerabilities than can exploited via the internet are still going
to end in April next year. Regular computers running any version of Windows XP that remain exposed to the internet
after the cut-off date this time next year will gradually become dangerously insecure over time.
If you really must run Windows XP for any reason after next April, either keep it offline, or run it in a virtual machine.
I maintain my stance that anyone still running Windows XP online as their primary OS from next April, and refuses to
get rid of it despite all the warnings, deserve everything the internet throws at their systems ... and no sympathy.
As my Dad would say ... fools wanted, fools found.
I fall into this category pretty much. I'm on Win 7 now as that's what the current OS was 18 months ago when I last got a new PC. Plus, being an MS-centric developer I have to move up an OS fairly soon after MS stop releasing new dev tools and apps for the OS I'm currently using.
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2259604/firms-adopt-headinthesand-approach-to-windows-xp-support-cutoff
"About 40 percent of business desktops are still running Windows XP"
Interesting...
"Windows XP Pro for Embedded Systems contains the same software bits and operates identically to Windows XP Pro. Windows XP Pro for Embedded Systems has licensing restrictions which restrict its use to an embedded solution. Windows XP Pro is used for general purpose PC’s. Windows XP Pro for Embedded Systems is used for embedded systems such as ATM’s, kiosks, medical devices and industrial controllers".
What sort of equipment that would that be? I thought Microsoft didn't recommend using Windows for "mission critical" applications.
I'd imagine they'll be for non critical stuff not life support or controlling the rods at a nuclear power plant etc but for things like cad/cam, linking an x ray machine to a remote custom tablet gizzmo etc, if you are a developer of embeded stuff then the source code is available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/windows-embedded-ce-licensing-program.aspx