Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1764483-20140405223438/@comment-1764483-20140406171327

Rasengan553 wrote: Curse you, Microsoft! You realize that technology is evolving and cannot support older OSes indefinitely? You realize that XP has not been sold or given mainstream support for some time now? You realize that MILLIONS of people are at risk now? You realize that games such as Minecraft run crappily on Windows XP as far to my knowledge and Plants vs. Zombies is capable of running on Windows 2000, of all things? You realize that even Windows 8(.1) has a finite lifecycle and will get the same treatment on January 10, 2023? You realize that emulation for running XP-only-or-required programs and retrogaming can be reasons for still using Windows XP but not as a main computer? You even realize that Windows XP was never exactly secure in the first place?

It's time to move on, really. As I said, keeping XP hardware or using emulators for retrogaming purposes or using software that is incompatible with newer OSes is acceptable, but using it for mainstream purposes has been deprecated. Chrome will support XP until April 2015; Firefox will continue to support XP for a while; Opera FOR SURE will support it for a good while; Internet Explorer and Safari have already deprecated Windows XP (and the rest of Windows, for the record of the latter).