{"id":5994,"date":"2014-04-08T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5994"},"modified":"2014-04-08T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T16:48:40","slug":"adios-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5994","title":{"rendered":"Adios, Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft support for Windows XP officially ends today. It&#8217;s done. Finished. Adios.<\/p>\n<p>The operating system still works; software never goes obsolete. Microsoft will not, however, offer updates, security patches, or provide &#8220;help&#8221; for Windows XP users effective today.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they really want you to upgrade. No, you probably won&#8217;t. If you&#8217;re using Windows XP, then you most likely have it running on a <em>very<\/em> old computer. That computer will die. Then you will update. That&#8217;s how it works.<\/p>\n<p>From a business standpoint, I believe Microsoft is making a huge mistake. They haven&#8217;t made much money from Windows XP users, but they could: Simply offer a $10 or $25 update. But, no. So, Adios, Windows XP, perhaps the best version of Windows ever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/business\/index.ssf\/2014\/04\/microsoft_windows_xp_support_e.html#incart_m-rpt-1\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft support for Windows XP officially ends today. It&#8217;s done. Finished. Adios. The operating system still works; software never goes obsolete. Microsoft will not, however, offer updates, security patches, or provide &#8220;help&#8221; for Windows XP users effective today. Yes, they really want you to upgrade. No, you probably won&#8217;t. If you&#8217;re using Windows XP, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}