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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-28-11 05:46 PM
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"On April 8, 2014, security patches and hotfixes for all versions of Windows XP will no longer be...
available."

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/springboard/archive/2011/07/11/with-only-1000-days-left-of-extended-support-don-t-you-think-it-s-time-to-retire-windows-xp.aspx

FYI for XP users.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-28-11 07:36 PM
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1. Good candidates for free Linux upgrades
Edited on Wed Sep-28-11 07:37 PM by pokerfan
XP era hardware most likely won't meet the minimum requirements for newer versions of Windows but they should run many currently supported flavors of Linux (such as Lubuntu) just fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubuntu
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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-28-11 07:39 PM
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2. good idea nt
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-28-11 08:07 PM
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3. I use maybe 10 of the 175+ patches available on my machine.
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