Windows XP

[mickw]

bearing in mind my finances are on there?

I hope you are backing up your files then.
And have a copy of your finance program somewhere.
And a copy of the backup software program somewhere.

[Ivor]

Mike and Mac make a good point, in the short term you won't have a problem. However there will become a time in the near future say 2 years where you will no longer be able to upgrade your applications or use newer applications as they won't support XP.

[Carole]

Its a marketing ploy to get you to upgrade.

Thanks Mac, well that's rather dishonest of them then.

Thanks Chris re PS and Astroart and windows 7.

That's put my mind at rest now.  I'll carry on with my XP desktop all the while it is working fine.

Carole

[Fay]

i am only concerned with mine because of the finances, Carole. My old Toshiba for imaging is XP but i dont have to go online with it.

[Carole]

I use mine for finances too Fay, but I'll swap to the Vista laptop for on-line banking in future I think.

Carole

[Mike]

Why? Like we said, with a firewall and anti-virus nothing is going to happen.