[Greenbuilding] FW: OT - Saving millions of XP PCs/Laptops

Jason Holstine jason at amicusgreen.com
Fri Mar 28 17:47:36 CDT 2014


You can keep using the machines but the biggest issue is that Microsoft will
stop writing security updates, so it will create vulnerabilities for your
machine to get hacked with viruses, trojan horses, Target credit card
breaches, and all that.


On 3/28/14 6:37 PM, "Nick Pyner" <npyner at ihug.com.au> wrote:

> Why indeed?
>  
> I have three XP laptops and, after a couple of weeks with Windows 8, my
> desktop is still on XP. I don't expect anything different on April 9th, or for
> quite some time after.
>  
> I don't see the germ of a scam here, but it does look a bit like the re-run of
> the Y2000 saga. 
>  
> NIck Pyner
>  
> Dee Why Beach  NSW
> 
> 
> From: Greenbuilding [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On
> Behalf Of Carmine Vasile
> Sent: Saturday, 29 March 2014 7:37 AM
> 
> 
> Sanjay: Why will millions of XP PCs/Laptops have to be discarded after April
> 8th?
>  
> From: sanjayjainuk at yahoo.co.uk
> 
>  
> I'm trying to generate support for a project to save millions of PCs.
> 
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