Or, why the heck are you still running XP SP2?
Now security experts worry that companies won’t pay much attention to Microsoft dropping all tech support for SP2. “It’s a virtual guarantee laggards will miss this deadline,” says Dean Williams, services development manager at Softchoice. XP SP2 computers will “become fair game,” he says. “There will just simply be more ways to hack in.”
Companies can continue to get security updates for XP computers through April 2014 by upgrading to SP3. It’s free. Testing and deployment is not trivial but can be automated, noted research firm Gartner. Or they can replace old XP units with new Windows 7 PCs, which Microsoft fully supports.