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Time's Up on XP; Look Before You Click
Today marks the first time in more than 12 years that Microsoft hasn't issued an update for XP. For those of you who stubbornly refused to upgrade to Windows 7 or 8, all we can do is wait and see what happens. You will be most vulnerable when using your computer for anything that involves the Internet - which is a lot for just about any business you can imagine.
The Internet, of course, brings us to our subject line for this month: Look Before You Click. It will be more crucial for XP users to be extremely careful and deliberate about what you click because you won't have any new security patches.
But the same need for caution applies to everyone. We'll discuss that in our article, Free Software Has a Price Tag.
In the meantime, we encourage you to "give us credit." We recently installed a Windows 8 computer for a customer who bought retail because he wanted to use his credit card. Buying retail forced him to take Windows 8, and he's not happy with it. If you still need to move from XP and want to take advantage of your credit card's rewards program, we can still help. We take credit cards, and we can get computers with Windows 7. Now that's what we call a real reward.
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Free Software Has a Price Tag
We love free software, and we use a lot of it. Programs like Adobe Reader, Java, media players and browsers come immediately to mind as indispensable tools. But they can get pretty costly pretty quickly, unless you look before you click.
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'Clean Your Room' and Improve Performance
Every computer user is like the kid who doesn't clean his or her room. Stuff just piles up, and at some point, you can't get to things easily. Your hard drive is like that room. When you have too many files, your computer can't store and then find bits of data easily. As a result, performance gets excruciatingly slow. Here's a spring cleaning tip.
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XP in Context
It's one thing to measure a lifespan in dog years. It's another to measure it in technology years. If a 12-year-old dog is like an 84-year-old-person, then a 12-year-year-old operating system is truly older than dirt. Here's a look at XP's timeline.
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