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The Brave Last Days of Windows XP SP2

It's all over for Windows XP Service Pack 2, at least in terms of support from Microsoft. So, if you haven't already, move (or get your customers to move) to Windows 7 -- or just implement XP SP3, which is still alive. Surprisingly, many businesses -- like half of all businesses, according to one researcher -- are still on SP2. Maybe not for long...

Posted by Lee Pender on July 14, 2010 at 11:56 AM


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