We have support for XP for 11 months
It stops in March next year.

http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/microsoft-corporation-msfts-windows-8-went-to-college-study-120324/

Windows 8. Worth a quick read and a few consumer comments at the bottom to liven things up a bit!

So far, I haven't really played with many of the features of W8 - but am mildly positive.

Google and Microsoft see a jump in profits

Google's net profit climbed to $3.35bn (£2.19bn) in the first three months of the year, up 16% from a year earlier, boosted by online advertising revenue.

Microsoft said it made $6bn in profit during the same period, a jump of more than 17% from a year ago.

Its earnings, which beat market forecasts, came despite a lukewarm reception for Windows 8 and a decline in global PC sales during the period.

Meanwhile IBM reported a fall in first quarter profits and revenues after the technology services company failed to complete deals in time and was hit by the depreciation of the Japanese yen.

I updated Java - and now the bl++dy thing won't work. I'm getting the following Error - Java Installer panel: C:\Users\Kevin\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\jre1.7.0_21\java_sp.dll is corrupt

Help please

I have mine to do........ will let you know if ok.,.

JAVA SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

A well known " other company" is offering an alternative, I am tempted.

Sorted - I followed instructions on the Java Error Messages.

had same problem kevin.,.

I hope you've sorted it, BB

Kevin

I have the same problem just now

any help on the stages you went throug once it said ...corrupt

thanks

All,

it seems the java website is up and down this morning, whcih is why you are probably seeing the corrupted message. when the site stabilises, you should be able to run the install correctly.

Ian

londongo - On the Java download site I found a grey Help Resources panel on the left. I clicked on the error messages and then download errors and it worked from there. Whether that was because I caught it at one of Java's "up" moments, as Ian mentions, or not I don't know, but it's all right now. Best of luck. TOK

kevin

it worked, the key was dowloading from offline instead of online, I got the same comment on the net.

so thanks again

I have an old laptop thats reached the end of its life.

Needs to go in the bin.

Is it enough (security wise) to remove and smash up the hard drive, or are there other gismos inside that can hold onto info?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Yep, that's all you need to destroy. Might be worth taking out the RAM just in case you can use it for another machine.

Thats a good idea, thanks Harry.

I've started to get this error in CHROME - just me?

"Error 103 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_ABORTED): Unknown error."

Am running Chrome with XP & Vista. No probs so far.

Thanks Harry - it started yesterday afternoon and it appears to be (for me) Chrome orientated on W8 and XP.

There are quite a few recent references on the net, none conclusive.