In our work place, many of our computers use Windows XP. Let’s face it, so many people have gotten comfortable using it, it’s still the most commonly used operating in the commercial workplace. In lies the dilemma, it’s gotten out of date. Support for light-weight backups is poor if non-existent and the security loop holes seem a-plenty. For these reasons, I am kissing Windows XP goodbye and upgrading my computers and those that I administrate to Windows Vista and/or the freshly released Windows 7.

The main problem I’ve run into with Windows XP is a virus that seems to be sweeping through the mail servers and passing by multi-levels of virus scanners, hitting and ultimately taking down the Windows XP machines and invoking an ever repeating Log-On, Log-Off loop that we have been unable to resolve on a domain.

Xp served me well but if it can’t stand up for more then 4 weeks without getting hit by a new virus, I am going to have to move on. Unfortunately the problem is more then what it is worth to correct. I’ll pull any harmed drives, extract needed data and move to a fresh machine with a new OS.

I use (or have used) just about every mainstream operating system out there (Windows 3.1, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, SBS 2008, SBS 2003, OS9, OSX, Unix, Linux, DOS, ect).Window’s Xp definitely the most popular, most used, and most mainstream of current times but modern evolution will probably show a phase-out of XP and phase in of 32-Bit/64-Bit systems.