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The Wndows XP headache continued

Readers here may be interested in knowing that my article on XP going generated a considerable amount of interest. What I found interesting was that several of our competitors have dropped XP as a supported operating system, we presently intend to support it if our clients want to keep using it.


Putting aside the legal problems that I spoke of here on Friday, that since Microsoft officially stopped supporting XP back in April, 2014 many suppliers see a huge juridical problem in running sensitive information over what is an unprotected operating system.


The other problem most software developers see like XChangeIT which I spoke today too on behalf of my clients have is that it takes a lot of work to get their software running on XP more than the newer Windows Operating system, and the XP market is just not there to support the costs of development on XP.

There's no easy answer here. Since the sheer number of XP's users in 2008 means many people now find themselves because of the difficulty of migrating certain software and the equipment which produce the costs or simply resistance to change.

Today we can see many XP users have rejected Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 without moving so I doubt they are going to move for Windows 10 so at present, we are offering our clients three alternatives.

1) Drop services like XChangeIT. Probably by now if you are running XP, you have had to drop many other services so this one is the next one to fall. If you intend to do this, I strongly suggest that you switch your browser to Firefox and use Avast antivirus because at least these are supported still on XP.

2) On your XP network add another computer running Windows 7,8 or 10. You just run these services like XChnageIT as usual on these upgraded Windows computers. It may be a little more mucking around to work, but most people find this does work well. Surely your kid or grandchildren or friends have a spare computer you could grab for the shop. This by the way is how my Mum who is 92 gets her computers, her kids or herr grandchildren upgrade their computers and so a spare one she can use becomes available.

3) Upgrade your system. If you are running a Windows XP computer, the system is certainly due for an upgrade. We do have a special running now for you to upgrade if you are running XP. We call it our Customer Appreciation sale where we thank our loyal customers for their continued business by offering big discounts on upgrades.

This way unlike others we do not leave anyone behind.