Completely off topic...but is Windows XP dead?

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Microsoft says: "Support for Windows XP is ending on April 8, 2014. If you're running this version after support ends, you won't get security updates for Windows."

Not too long until that :/ I've been thinking what to do with family members with XP:s still in use and working perfectly fine for them. Almost grabbed cheap Win 8 upgrade offer which is available for this month still, but seems it doesn't work with P4/2.8GHz CPUs we have around. Missing the NX bit... soo.. I guess we'll let them be XP still and see what happens

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So - is the ONLY really compelling reason to upgrade to a later version of Windows (if you're happy with older software) the lack of security patches?

IMHO, in the most cases, yes. And when it's Windows we're talking, it feels quite forcing reason