I had seen on Microsoft's site that XP will be supported with updates and security until 2014. Am I wrong about that? I think the technical support Microsoft offers for XP has or is soon to be discontinued. Blessings. Lynnsky ----- Original Message ----- From: robert tweedy To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 6:20 AM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: scanning books But here is the bad news, XP isn't going to be supported after the spring of next year if the rumors are true. ----- Original Message ----- From: Duane Iverson To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 6:45 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: scanning books Dear Jamie: Your Humble correspondent held on to his Windows 98 computer until it died! I then jumped to Windows XP. I was fortunate to be able to buy the XP computer about twenty minutes before Vista exploded on to the seen. Vista is the next step up from XP. Vista was generally well received! that is if you compare it to a canker sore or gingivitis. Windows 7 is the next step in the relentless advance of Microsoft Windows. We had windows 1, 2, 3, then Windows 965 then Windows 98. Windows Millennium, then Windows XP, then Windows Vista. In October we get Windows 7. you wrote "You know what, I'm happy with the computer system and software I have I think. Maybe I don't wanna know." Good Call. Of course sooner or later they'll make you upgrade. Hopefully I can hold on to my XP until about Windows nine or something. Of course I might have to upgrade when JAWS 15 stops supporting anything below Vista or Kurzweil version 22 runs only on Windows 9 and above, but I'll burn that bridge when they drag me to it. Duane Iverson ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Yates, CPhT . . . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.83/2353 - Release Date: 09/08/09 06:48:00