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XP Paid Support: US$1 Million for 5,000 desktops for first year. Seems astronomically high, but if you need it, is it really?

We're now under one year to go until the end of life date for Windows XP , which Brian wrote about a few weeks ago. The relatively short article opened up a flood of comments talking about whether or not there are elevated security risks for running XP...

by Gabe Knuth on April 19, 2013 : 2 comments , 3,094 views
Windows XP support ends one year from today. If you're not migrated by then, will your CIO sign-off on zero day vulnerability risks beyond that?

April 8, 2014 is the final, we-mean-it-this-time, no extensions end of support for Microsoft Windows XP. (Well, unless you're a really big customer who can leverage Microsoft into providing longer support. Don't tell anyone!) But for most of us, we have...

by Brian Madden on April 08, 2013 : 17 comments , 4,074 views
Managing Windows 8 doesn't differ much from managing Windows 7, at least not in ways that matter

Most people, myself included, are happy to take the wait-and-see approach to Windows 8. This is partly because we're now only fifteen months away from the end of Windows XP, knee-deep in Windows 7 rollouts, and partly because of lack of inspiration. The...

by Gabe Knuth on January 31, 2013 : 7 comments , 3,846 views
Results of my 5-second Windows XP Survey: Half of organizations still at least 50% on XP, 14% think they will still have some XP after April 8, 2014

Last week I wrote an article about how April 9, 2014 scares me more than April 8, 2014 , the last day that Microsoft will support Windows XP. The article primarily focuses on how, once Microsoft washes their hands of the OS, hacks and exploits will go...

by Gabe Knuth on October 10, 2012 : 3 comments , 4,014 views
Forget April 8, 2014. The real red letter day for companies on Windows XP is April 9, 2014

Just in case you don't get to the bottom or notice the link, would you mind taking a moment to complete my anonymous 5 Second Windows XP Survey ? It will help us understand the actual impact of the things I talk about in this article. We've talked at...

by Gabe Knuth on October 04, 2012 : 0 comments , 5,711 views
Microsoft talks WinRT, Server 2012, Hyper-V, WinXP, at WorldWide Partner Conference

Tim Mangan is at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference , in Toronto Canada, this week, and sent in this report on the happenings there: Following up on the Report from Day 1 of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference I am now into Day 3. The day...

by Tim Mangan on July 12, 2012 : 0 comments , 3,635 views

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XP Paid Support: US$1 Million for 5,000 desktops for first year. Seems astronomically high, but if you need it, is it really?

Windows XP support ends one year from today. If you're not migrated by then, will your CIO sign-off on zero day vulnerability risks beyond that?

Managing Windows 8 doesn't differ much from managing Windows 7, at least not in ways that matter

Results of my 5-second Windows XP Survey: Half of organizations still at least 50% on XP, 14% think they will still have some XP after April 8, 2014

Forget April 8, 2014. The real red letter day for companies on Windows XP is April 9, 2014

Microsoft talks WinRT, Server 2012, Hyper-V, WinXP, at WorldWide Partner Conference