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Originally Posted by skyguy79
I have no doubts that XP still works great. Worked great for me too up until I upgraded with the purchase of a new computer with a new OS. I do have to ask though if you read the article? It's not about current performance as far as I could tell, but rather about future issues like peripheral support (i.e. driver updates or new peripherals), reduced security and software support or compatibility and more.
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The only thing that I would be worried about is the security issues cause by not getting patches for the security problems that MS finds. As far as the rest, unless you want to put new programs or peripherals on your XP machine you should be fine. And you would probably still be fine if you put a new printer on it anyway.
To go from an XP OS to W7 or W8 would probably require an upgrade to the PC anyway.
I will keep my one XP machine until it dies. I network the printer off of my W7 machine anyway.
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