Some more questions and whatnot related to this topic:
First, this article I just ran across seems to cover the basics:
It does hew to the MS company line, re how safe one can be in any continuing-XP scenario, even with your choice of A/V software and firewall.
1) Just for general info, if that rumored pay-for-another-year-of-XP-support option indeed exists, would anyone happen to know what they're asking for it ? Since this is targeted at businesses, I would imagine end-users won't be willing to cough up what this must cost.
2) Also just for general curiosity, are any of you few Linux users running Xy-4 under it ? And how has that gone ? This probably would have been discussed on the list before, but I don't recall it. The new 64-bit NB
_may_ run under Linux and the Mac (the Mac OS itself being a variant of Linux, well under the hood), but I don't think a timetable for that was announced.
3) For yet another scenario I will be dealing with, I remain interested in (the supposed) "complete migration" solutions, that have claimed to be able to transfer installed apps -- with their Registry info -- your desktop, personalized setting etc., not just the data, from Windows to a later Windows. But I don't know if any of that truly worked, or extends to Win 7, 32 or 64 bit. The apps I'd heard of that claimed
to do this in the past were a migration module of Acronis TI, and a deluxe version of Laplink. However, said tools predated Win-7, and I haven't read much on this subject since then. The article linked above makes clear that the Laplink edition mentioned within will NOT do this. If something else will, I'd like to find out about it.
Jordan