On 2014-03-24, 5:52 AM, TOM WALKER -> DARYL STOUT wrote:   
      
    DS>>  I use Opera as my default web browser, and use Internut Exploder   
    DS>> (typos intended) for Windows Update. After the final security update for   
    DS>> XP in April, 2014, it'll be good to just turn that feature off. As long   
    DS>> as I'm careful as to what websites I visit, plus keeping my anti-virus,   
    DS>> anti-spyware, and firewall updated, I should be OK.   
      
    TW> I frequently use the typo "Micro Slime" in referneg to them.   
    TW> They are slimy and hasve stabbec theri customers in the back frequnetly.   
      
    TW> But on continues use of Win XP at soem point sooner, most likely, or   
    TW> later the XP Anti Virus, Anti Spyware, and firewalls Will not be updated   
    TW> and then we could have a problem.   
    TW> ---   
      
   MS gets regularly blamed for the sorts of things that Apple does routinely -   
   and with no blame. For instance, after 12 years, MS drops support for Windows   
   XP (released in 2002); during the same period, Apple switched processor   
   architectures (from PowerPC to Intel) in 2006 and moved from  2002's OS X 10.2   
   to 2013's 10.9 (7 generations of OS). The last OS X version with PPC support   
   was OS X 10.5. OS X included support to run older applications developed for   
   the PPC platform on Intel - but that was dropped in OS X 10.7. So the owner of   
   an Intel-powered Mac (all post-2006 Macs) running OS X 10.7 or later can not   
   run any Mac application developed prior to 2006.   
      
   Microsoft has offered users MUCH more backwards compatibility - even Windows 8   
   users can run most applications developed for XP, Win2000, Win 95/98, and even   
   16-bit applications developed for Win 3.x and many DOS applications - with   
   backwards compatibility reaching back to the 1980s.   
      
   --- Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunde   
    * Origin: Fidonet Via Newsreader - http://www.easternstar.info (1:123/789.0)