Granted, this is not a Y2K situation, but not too different in many respects. As we are all aware, the Wild West Web and communications are "TARGETED" by Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves..
On April 8th 2014, granted furnaces will still be melting metal, molding machines will still be running, airplanes will not be crashing into your metalcasting operations, the nuclear facility down the road from you won't blowup, your forklifts will still run, and the trucking companies will still deliver your raw materials and ship your castings. However, at some point in time there will be a piece of software that you have or need or want that will not run under Windows XP. It would be prudent to go ahead and start migrating PC's and laptops to WIN7 or WIN8 as rapidly as possible. Synchro runs under all Microsoft operating systems from XP forward and we will continue to support windows XP for the foreseeable future.
I can see it coming. My greatest fear is that many companies are not seeing how serious this is or are totally unaware of what is coming very soon. That was APRIL 8th 2014 - not 2015 or 2016... THIS IS THIS YEAR.
XP will become a gold mine for "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" to exploit security weaknesses of XP computers. I totally predict that many of the mainstays, the stalwarts, the captains of the software industry, the seminal software companies will very rapidly drop support for XP in their products - and many of these products will have formed the very foundation of your software backbone with "add-ins", "plug-ins", security applications, office functionality, document viewers, etc. (I am purposely NOT listing any companies, but you can fill in the blanks and connect the dots).
So, there you have it. From Texas. Start planning to move on from Windows XP very rapidly.
Until next time, see you down the road...
Shane Allen
Head of Synchro ERP North American Operations
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