{"id":157,"date":"2014-06-10T09:54:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T09:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.blueshell.im\/Blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2020-08-16T08:48:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T08:48:57","slug":"end-of-support-for-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"End of Support for Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the withdrawal of support from Microsoft for Windows XP from 8th of April 2014 a lot of companies were left wondering exactly what that meant for them. It basically means that any security or operating bugs in the XP operating system that are discovered from April onwards will not be fixed by Microsoft so you will be vulnerable to these. The withdrawal of support for operating systems after a certain period is common practice however what has caught a lot of business users is the fact they are not comfortable with the stability of the newer versions.<\/p>\n<p>There are several options open including obviously upgrading to one of the later versions of windows for example windows 8, however this may also mean hardware upgrade as it is recommended that machines running windows 8 have a minimum of 2Gb of RAM. Ram (Random Access Memory) is the memory in your machine and not to be confused with disk space.<\/p>\n<p>At this point many organizations are considering whether they need to stick with the Microsoft platform indeed many govt departments are considering the possibility of switching to alternatives like Linux. With any switch there are bound to be questions like will my applications run on this new Operating system ?.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Shell Limited s more than happy to help you reach an informed decision with the advent of many applications running on the cloud you might be surprised at what choices are available to you. Please feel free to call or email for a no obligation free chat or visit our website www.blueshell.im<\/p>\n<p>Phone Blue Shell Limited on:  01624 620469<br \/>\nEmail\t\t\t\t\tinfo@blueshell.im<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the withdrawal of support from Microsoft for Windows XP from 8th of April 2014 a lot of companies were left wondering exactly what that meant for them. It basically means that any security or operating bugs in the XP &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/?p=157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}