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The five most common excuses for not upgrading Windows XP (independent.ie)
2 points by Varcht on March 24, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


I'm been running the same XP install since 1/11/2004 as my primary machine. It has run on several mother board/cpus and been cloned across HD's numerous times too. It's going to be very difficult to give it up. I have a Vista and a Win8 boxes hooked up to the kvm here at the desk but the XP box is like an old friend.


It's such an epic security risk, I can't understand why you'd want to risk using XP?


Its firewalled and scanned regularly, browse with Chrome, careful with emails and downloads, so far so good? I don't do anything anything critical on it anyways. It will be retired soon though.




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