Waterwings
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Found this info on another site and thought I'd post it here.
"B U L L E T I N
Users of the older Windows 2000 and of the Windows XP Service Pack 2 version are about to lose Microsoft's patch support; from 13 July 2010, these two older systems will not be updated when vulnerabilities are discovered which could compromise the security of a machine.
Microsoft is warning customers that "Unsupported products or service packs pose a significant risk to your computer's security. Therefore, Microsoft advises customers to migrate to the latest supported service pack and/or product prior to the end of support."
Most users of Windows XP should now be working with Service Pack 3 which continues to be supported. You can check which version you have by using the [Start] menu and typing ' Winver ' in the pop-up box and pressing [OK].
If the information panel shows 'Version 5.1 .... Service Pack 3' your system will continue to receive updates until April 8, 2014.
A recent poll of users showed that roughly 37 percent of Windows users are still using XP. A little over 31 percent of respondents currently use XP
SP3 and approximately 5 percent are still using an earlier version of XP.
The Gartner Research group has advised companies to migrate from Windows XP entirely by 2012."
"B U L L E T I N
Users of the older Windows 2000 and of the Windows XP Service Pack 2 version are about to lose Microsoft's patch support; from 13 July 2010, these two older systems will not be updated when vulnerabilities are discovered which could compromise the security of a machine.
Microsoft is warning customers that "Unsupported products or service packs pose a significant risk to your computer's security. Therefore, Microsoft advises customers to migrate to the latest supported service pack and/or product prior to the end of support."
Most users of Windows XP should now be working with Service Pack 3 which continues to be supported. You can check which version you have by using the [Start] menu and typing ' Winver ' in the pop-up box and pressing [OK].
If the information panel shows 'Version 5.1 .... Service Pack 3' your system will continue to receive updates until April 8, 2014.
A recent poll of users showed that roughly 37 percent of Windows users are still using XP. A little over 31 percent of respondents currently use XP
SP3 and approximately 5 percent are still using an earlier version of XP.
The Gartner Research group has advised companies to migrate from Windows XP entirely by 2012."
. I don't know crap about that stuff, lol.
