Definitive Guide To Surviving The Death Of Windows XP

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Definitive Guide To Surviving The Death Of Windows XP

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A good article to browse through for tips and advice if you are still on Windows XP...

Definitive Guide To Surviving The Death Of Windows XP
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Great reading Rudi; thanks.
As I drifted off to sleep, wandering through time zones last night, I contemplated the small business still running Win3.1 on a 16-bit machine with Word 6.0 to prepare invoices for printing on a dot-matrix printer.
It seems to me that such a user (and variants thereof) are probably immune to today’s malware which, surely, is designed to run on 64-bits and exploit weaknesses in browsers other than Mosaic.
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You make a valid point. If one had to go back to those archaic apps and OS's, you will not need antivirus and malware. Who's going to target these users and write malicious code that's compatible with such old software. Brilliant Chris, you might be onto something. :thumbup:
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Rudi wrote: Brilliant Chris, you might be onto something. :thumbup:
Never mind the :thumbup:, Rudi.
Do you think my idea might go viral amongst the die-hards? :rofl:
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ChrisGreaves wrote:
Rudi wrote: Brilliant Chris, you might be onto something. :thumbup:
Never mind the :thumbup:, Rudi.
Do you think my idea might go viral amongst the die-hards? :rofl:
:laugh:
If it does, you can charge them $5 to call you ACE!
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