No, it's B.S. I've spent the last week fixing a lady's PC that was lousy with infections, so bad they'd turned off Windows Firewall. I had to roll it back from SP3 to SP2, then re-install SP3. I was amazed at how sparse and hard to find the SP2 resources were on Microsoft's site. Also, while XP data abounds at their site, there were obvious links all over the place trying to direct one to Windows 7. I have Windows 7 on the PC I'm using now, and it's great. But XP is the best OS they put out since Windows 2000--better, even--and I see no reason to push people toward it. For those of us who have to watch our money, for people for whom an upgrade to Windows 7 represents a real financial struggle, XP is a godsend. I find it appalling at what they're trying to do here.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <martinbaxt...@gmail.com> To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:58:45 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP Microsoft isn't particularly pleased about the continuing success of Windows XP, which has more than twice the installed base of Windows Vista and 7 put together. So it's trying its hardest to kill the operating system that won't die, including refusing to issue security patches for XP SP2, putting many XP users at risk. Is that the right way to get people to upgrade? More at: http://www.pcworld.com/article/202612/microsofts_notsosecret_plan_to_cripple_windows_xp.html?tk=nl_wbx_h_crawl1 -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
