I sorry to hear about vipre. However, not all AV providers are ending
support so soon.

--jimm


On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Riley Childs <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> But they ARE a security risk, our AV (vipre) is ceasing support for
> windows XP, so we really don't have a choice, besides I was presently
> surprised when I pushed out a windows 8 image to the wrong box and it ran
> fine (dell deminision 2400s and a really old optiplex)
>
> Riley Childs
> Student
> Asst. Head of IT Services
> Charlotte United Christian Academy
> (704) 497-2086
> RileyChilds.net
> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
> ________________________________
> From: Jimm Wetherbee<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 3/1/2014 5:59 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL
>
> Just because MS won't support XP any more doesn't mean those machines are
> instantly useless or a security risk come April 8th. We will not be doing
> anything with our lab computers until Summer because they are too old to
> run Windows 8 but we cannot do without them.
>
> --jimm
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Riley Childs <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I wanted to hear how people are dealing with the Windows XP End-of-Life
> > (if anything at all :(
> >
> >
> > Personally I am migrating the computers that can run it to Windows 8 (we
> > ran out of 7 licenses and someone (years ago) bought SA, but that's
> another
> > story), and when April 7th comes around: throw anything we can't use away
> > (sigh).
> >
> > Riley Childs
> > Student
> > Asst. Head of IT Services
> > Charlotte United Christian Academy
> > (704) 497-2086
> > RileyChilds.net
> > Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
> >
>
>
>
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>



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