But they ARE a security risk, our AV (vipre) is ceasing support for windows XP, so we really don't have a choice, besides I was presently surprised when I pushed out a windows 8 image to the wrong box and it ran fine (dell deminision 2400s and a really old optiplex)
Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes ________________________________ From: Jimm Wetherbee<mailto:j...@wingate.edu> Sent: 3/1/2014 5:59 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL Just because MS won't support XP any more doesn't mean those machines are instantly useless or a security risk come April 8th. We will not be doing anything with our lab computers until Summer because they are too old to run Windows 8 but we cannot do without them. --jimm On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Riley Childs <rchi...@cucawarriors.com>wrote: > Hi, > I wanted to hear how people are dealing with the Windows XP End-of-Life > (if anything at all :( > > > Personally I am migrating the computers that can run it to Windows 8 (we > ran out of 7 licenses and someone (years ago) bought SA, but that's another > story), and when April 7th comes around: throw anything we can't use away > (sigh). > > Riley Childs > Student > Asst. Head of IT Services > Charlotte United Christian Academy > (704) 497-2086 > RileyChilds.net > Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes > --
