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Old 5th April 2014 | 23:30
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seacue
 
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The Awful Day

I support 6 PCs still running XP. All will have their Internet access disconnected by The Awful Day.

Then I'll sit back and see how many of the predicted horrors occur.

I wonder whether the dire predictions are partly a marketing tool to sell more-recent versions of Windows. I haven't been as faithful as I should about installing the very many patches which MS is still issuing after XP has been in use for more than a decade, but "my" PCs have been OK so far. And MS has said that they will be informing the protection software outfits about problems they find for at least another year. That won't solve the day-zero problems. How many of you have kept track of patches well enough to handle day-zero problems -- or would automatic updates from MS even be quick enough anyway?
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