Windows XP - End of Life - a bit like W2K bug that never happened

jimbo45 said:

...BTW ATM's use EMBEDDED XP which is a totally different animal to the XP you run on a PC.

Cheers
jimbo

And is still vulnerable. ATMs have been successfully targeted in recent attacks.

jimbo45 said:

give me an old fashioned dwelling with loads of REAL wood around the place, homely furniture

Please tell me you meant "homey" furniture. Or are you really a fan of the ugly stuff?

bigmck said:

I hope this is not too far off topic. You were talking about how XP will be unprotected to hackers, etc. I still run MS Office 2003. Is there any such problem with using it? I like the interface a lot better than the later ones.

Office is not going to be a problem if you stay off the internet with XP. Malware comes from the internet. If you use another means to access the internet (virtual Linux or Linux on a stick) then you have no problem.

whs said:

bigmck said:

I hope this is not too far off topic. You were talking about how XP will be unprotected to hackers, etc. I still run MS Office 2003. Is there any such problem with using it? I like the interface a lot better than the later ones.

Office is not going to be a problem if you stay off the internet with XP. Malware comes from the internet. If you use another means to access the internet (virtual Linux or Linux on a stick) then you have no problem.

Thanks for the reply WHS

whs said:

I don't buy into the XP end-of-life "crisis".

It will be a Microsoft End of Life crisis if they don't come to their senses. There is only so much jerking that customers will put up with.

My goverment is already warning people not to use 8.1. It even made the 8 o'clock evening news on the national TV. And once the EU get's into the act, then they are really in deep yogurt.

It won't matter for me since I'm moving to an area out of NATO while buying a Win8 computer so NSA would usually ignore the country.

AstaLaVista said:

Pfffftttt... My server is stll running Win2K and it does not miss a beat... to bad I can't say the same thing about the hardware, which is getting harder and harder to find lol.

Use Firefox with BLOCKED BLOCKED and Noscript with your windows xp and you should be fine... getting a virus is a crap shoot, if you happen to be unlucky the day the virus went live, you are doomed no matter if you are running windows 8.5 beta lol

You should remove the 4th and 5th words since it is against Rule 13.

whs said:

bigmck said:

I hope this is not too far off topic. You were talking about how XP will be unprotected to hackers, etc. I still run MS Office 2003. Is there any such problem with using it? I like the interface a lot better than the later ones.

Office is not going to be a problem if you stay off the internet with XP. Malware comes from the internet. If you use another means to access the internet (virtual Linux or Linux on a stick) then you have no problem.

I am using Windows 7, so using MS Office 2003 would not be a problem I would think just as WHS said above, but there seems to be conflicting opinions on this.
Office 2003 updates
Any comment on this would be appreciated.