If you’ve been putting off installing XP service pack 2 you’ve been putting it off since 17 September 2004. Well you’re not going to be able to put it off much longer. Support for XP and XPsp1 will end on 10 October 2006, 24 months after the release of sp2 as promised by Microsoft.
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Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Is this one of those things they send to you and force you to restart your computer or say “later” every 10 minutes?
I don’t believe so. It’s more the fact that you’ll get no support from Microsoft (no big loss as you probably never call them for support anyway), and they’ll be no more security updates (the more important issue).