Farewell Windows XP

Microsoft is making it harder and harder to keep Window XP systems running. The amount of updates which need to be downloaded and installed in the final version means the time for a reinstall now runs into three days. Actually downloading the updates is also and more difficult as more and more web resources refuse to allow a connection from computer running XP.

This is a sad situation when XP has performed solidly for many years and some users don’t actually need to connect to the Internet for things like word processing or working on spreadsheets. However we do have to accept that the hardware naturally comes to the end of it’s life so it’s probably wise to go through the upgrade process at a time to suit you rather than wait for a breakdown which invariably happens at the most inconvenient time.