How often: upgrading operating software platform

[OakLeaf]

You should upgrade when the software company stops supporting the operating system.

... like I said, I'm still getting patches for XP Home!

So on that basis - and looking up some basics - I'll stick with what I originally said. Supposedly MS is going to stop supporting XP a little over a year from now. Vista was released in January 2007 and XP was last sold through MS's developer program two years later. So, by the time MS stops supporting XP, a computer that was originally sold with XP installed would be a minimum of five years old (if it was sold through the developer program), and more likely seven to TWELVE years old ... I just can't imagine that the hardware would be capable of running Win 8 or modern applications. So, new computer, with the new OS installed.

Same thing goes if your existing OS isn't capable of running a current browser. I'd be real leery of installing a new OS over whatever hardware that was...


... websites that can't be viewed in Mozilla, Safari or Chrome? Figures. But, NASA has a cool iPad app ...