[Pentagon Leatherneck]

Just last night I saw a commercial that touted PCMatic’s ability to “support WinXP which MS has abandoned.” Or words to that effect. What’s up with that? Not that I want to use XP in the future—my non-Apple machines use Win7 64-bit which I like.

TC

[dayglored]

> Just last night I saw a commercial that touted PCMatic’s ability to “support WinXP which MS has abandoned.” Or words to that effect. What’s up with that?

PC-Matic is a "maintenance" package that does various anti-virus, registry-cleaning, and other general system tasks. It gets good reviews, generally.

HOWEVER, it does NOT provide security patches and updates for Windows or any Windows components such as Internet Explorer or Microsoft Office.

They're just doing some fancy marketing (read: white lies) by implying that they're picking up where Microsoft left off. It's not true.

> Not that I want to use XP in the future—my non-Apple machines use Win7 64-bit which I like.

Windows 7 is terrific. I think it's the best OS Microsoft has ever put out.