"Anyone, in my opinion, who is running XP should upgrade at their
first opportunity for the reason I specified above."
Ms Campbell,
As one of the more enthusiastic advocates of dropping XP in favour of
a more up-to-date operating system, would you be prepared to
personally sponsour a list member unable to afford the cost of
necessary hardware and software upgrades in order that they put your
suggestions into practice? As you say, running XP is fraught with
risks from hackers and crackers. So, it would be a very
public-spirited gesture from you to enable at least one of us mere
mortals to make the move over to Windows Seven or later. I dare say
GW Info is richly endowed with self-styled internet security experts,
software analysts and engineers. I'm sure if they were to donate a
dollar each time they gave us the benefit of their insight into the
subject, soon we would be able to help a dozen or more ignorant
bumkins who are unwittingly throwing the future of GW, Ai Squared and
the civilised world into question by using out-of-date versions of Windows.
Sincerely, MJ Williams
At 03:33 22/08/2014, you wrote:
While I am not a GW Micro/AI Squared Indiana staff member, I strongly
believe that XP will not be supported in the next release. As you rightly
point out, Microsoft is no longer supporting it which means you don't get
security updates thus making your system vulnerable to viruses and hacking.
Anyone, in my opinion, who is running XP should upgrade at their first
opportunity for the reason I specified above. Keep in mind that VISTA will
be in the same position come October and I have that on very good authority.
Thankfully I don't have to worry about this issue any longer as my work
machine was upgraded this past July. I love not having to deal with the XP
issues any longer; and this also means not having to worry about needing to
run an older version of WE because the next version very likely won't work
under XP.
Happy upgrading.
Karyn Campbell, Illinois USA, [email protected]
Using WE 8.4 on Toshiba laptop running Windows 7 home premium 32-bit with
Office 2007 and IE 10 as well as Acer netbook running Windows 7 home
premium 64-bit with Office 2007 and IE 10 and Microsoft security Essentials
on both machines.
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