Thanks for your reply. But so was is XP. However, there have been other Windows versions that may not have had the same good fortune, especially when they were first released. Someone told me once upon a time that it was just good practice to wait if possible before installing a newly released major upgrade software package, regardless of whether that was an operating system or an application.
And that made pretty good sense to me. But what about my second question: is there a pretty high likelihood that most computers running XP today would not be able to run Windows 8 because of hardware conflicts? Would that be even worse now for the upgrade to Windows 8? Or have they improved the ability of Windows to use older hardware? When I will upgrade from XP home to windows 8, thought Windows 7 was o. Everything I read about them is so positive so I am sure will not have too much trouble when I switch.
Thanks for your input. Have a great day. Showing my old age, I too like O. Putting XP applications on separate networks is a popular, short-term approach to the migration problem, according to Gartner's Michael Silver. You want to put these systems of higher risk into isolated network zones and use network security and firewall technology to do heightened inspection on those devices" — James Lyne, Sophos. So if you're looking at a server version that's similar to XP, that would be the release.
Of course, it only buys you 15 months but it certainly could be a decent short-term fallback. Last year, Ovum principal analyst Roy Illsley said many of those organisations that have still to make the move from XP would look to desktop virtualisation for a solution. Gartner's Michael Silver is wary of the idea that cloud-based productivity suites, such as Office , could provide a short-term answer to XP problems.
There are a lot of things that won't work. Certain users may be able to use it, others users may not. That project really requires a year, a year and a half, of investigation and testing before you would implement it," he said. For large organisations with legacy XP systems, Microsoft's Custom Support represents another option — albeit a costly one, according to Silver.
But even at that price they'll still go for Custom Support because it's the easier short-term way out," he said.
It's going to cost a lot more because there's a minimum payment. Silver thinks third-party support, such as that offered by Arkoon , is in surprisingly short supply, especially given the scale of the XP user base.
Other companies have set out Windows XP support plans for their products. There will be an extended market for XP in terms of security research and mitigation, Sophos' James Lyne says, which includes antivirus software. However, it would be unwise to rely on antivirus as the answer to Microsoft's end of support. It can still detect lots of threats on their way into the platform.
It's still going to pick up a lot of malicious code," he said. Staff working from home on their own Windows XP devices may also constitute a further security issue, according to Lyne.
That's a very realistic attack vector," he said. Lyne said people tend to think about the core part of a network and the desktops that they may have deployed themselves. That broader environment also includes XP devices that may well fall outside an IT department's normal ambit because they are running the lightweight, embedded version of the operating system or one that has been customised for a specific purpose. Although Microsoft support for Windows XP Embedded continues until 12 January , many of the dedicated devices that people assume are running it may actually be using modified versions of the desktop OS.
Lyne says over the years he has seen all kinds of "really scary stuff", including ATMs running heavily customised Windows XP throughout bank networks; medical devices for measuring and controlling people's heart rates; and building management systems that control people striking in or out of offices, whether the doors are open or closed and whether the fire alarm goes off.
The problem is everybody forgets about things like the building management system or XYZ black box. They see it as black box that performs a function rather than something running Windows XP. Many of these devices run a base XP that has never been patched because it has relied on being locked down and inaccessible. I wouldn't assume anything and I'd be validating each and every one of them. Along with the security implications of hardware such as printers and copiers comes the question of their continued compatibility with unsupported XP machines.
Compatibility has already been a problem for the best part of a year of even more, according to Gartner's Michael Silver. You're not going to get a full set of drivers," he said. Today, a 1GB or 2GB machine sometimes can take 10 minutes to boot. Some of that could be Windows rot — the machine probably is due for a reimage anyway because there's lots of junk on it," he said. Windows 7 and certainly Windows 8 on a good image should boot a lot more quickly.
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