- Dec 30, 2012
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In a tip of the hat to the late Douglas Adams, we'll ask, "How many days has XP really got left?"
If you include today - April Fool's Day, no less - the answer is, "42."
Here's my reasoning.
The last Microsoft-issued patches come out for XP in one week's time, on 08 April 2014.
(If that date is a surprise to you, you probably need to get out more. Or perhaps to stop going out so much.)
After that, as my friend and colleague Chester Wisniewski pointed out in our Sophos Techknow podcast, The End of XP, you've got about a month of security normality.
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If you include today - April Fool's Day, no less - the answer is, "42."
Here's my reasoning.
The last Microsoft-issued patches come out for XP in one week's time, on 08 April 2014.
(If that date is a surprise to you, you probably need to get out more. Or perhaps to stop going out so much.)
After that, as my friend and colleague Chester Wisniewski pointed out in our Sophos Techknow podcast, The End of XP, you've got about a month of security normality.
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