I can never believe the commotion that occurs every time Microsoft 
discontinues support of an operating system.  First of all it's not 
really "support" they're discontinuing, it's updates correcting their 
goofs on original release.  MS support usually ends with "Not a Windows 
problem.  Call the software/hardware company. They're at fault."  Most 
of the XP updates, as many have mentioned, are security fixes for things 
that have not, nor ever will occur in the wild.  As long as your OS is 
working well, why on earth would anyone want to update to the latest and 
greatest if what you have is doing the job.

The only thing I would wish for in XP is the ability to adjust partition 
sizes, but there are other ways even if Norton has totally destroyed 
Partition Magic.  The computer I'm running is an 8 1/2 year old home 
built that has been running XP Pro since it was born.  I've never had a 
blue screen of death, and I average about two freezes a year, usually 
from Firefox for some odd reason.  It's on a minimum of 15 hours a day, 
seven days a week.  My granddaughter picked up a rootkit virus about 3 
months ago and that the only problem I've ever had.  Incidentally, I 
always ran AVG, but Kaspersky AV was the only thing that I found that 
was capable of detecting it and removing it.

Despite 8 1/2 years of junk being loaded on it, it still goes from cold 
start to ready for action in 1.3 minutes.  Why on earth would I want to 
dump XP?  We have other computers in the house that run Vista and Win 
7.  I prefer my XP to Vista, and can not honestly see anything I would 
gain with Win 7.  To those who feel it's necessary to install every one 
of MS's "updates," look at it as a blessing.  No longer will you have to 
figure out what went wrong and wait for MS to come out with a fix for 
their fix.

Art Cassel

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