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Newport Boy Tech: DOOMSDAY LOOMS - for some (21) RE: Tech: DOOMSDAY LOOMS - for some 05 Dec 12

The death of XP has been predicted many times. I still use it as my subsidiary OS (in a virtual machine) and intend to continue doing so. I'm not prepared to predict the date of my death, so I don't know how long that will be, but I sincerely hope it's well beyond 2014!

I'm not bothered about viruses, etc. I run Avast on XP, but it's not reported any nasty since I started using it nearly 3 years ago. I take a snapshot of the virtual machine daily, and should XP catch a virus, I can simply revert to yesterday's snapshot (or last week's, or last month's). That takes about 5 seconds - better than 12 hours to install Windows and its apps and drivers.

Phil

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