As Windows XP wanes, Windows 8 scoops up users

Netwrok World ^ | 01/08/2014 | By Tim Greene

[GeronL]

The Apple Pro is awesome, it better be for that price, but it looks strange to me. The pic you posted looks pretty cool.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

One possible solution for you...which I am currently using...is to install the free Virtual Box on WinXP and install a Linux OS on the VM. You can set the VM to bridge the NIC and then disable TCP/IP and MS Windows Client on the XP machine.

Use the XP OS for utility work and use the Linux VM for anything needing internet access. Close to zero vulnerability. Especially after 4/8/2014. Works like a charm for me.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

people have little choice but to leave XP since support is ending.

Why?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

They should come up with “Old Fart Windows”. I want to surf the web, write letters and get email. I don’t need anything else. And I don’t get very many emails.

"They" have.

It's called Linux Mint 15. For web surfing, email and word processing, it can't be beat. And it's free.

[NewHampshireDuo]

One possible solution for you...which I am currently using...is to install the free Virtual Box on WinXP and install a Linux OS on the VM. You can set the VM to bridge the NIC and then disable TCP/IP and MS Windows Client on the XP machine.

Use the XP OS for utility work and use the Linux VM for anything needing internet access. Close to zero vulnerability. Especially after 4/8/2014. Works like a charm for me.

Thanks. That is a good idea as it avoids the shut down/reboot issue. I am using Virtual Box on a separate Linux machine with Whonix installed within Virtual Box. That's a solution to a different problem though. :-)

[A CA Guy]

Thanks, that is helpful.

I don’t get viruses, but if I did this helps in removal.

[Gene Eric]

Win8.1 + Start8