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lendall:
The above is a quote from the Windows upgrade instructions page for MC21.  By "video support" do you mean that if I install MC21 on my XP SP3 computer I will no longer be able to use MC to play video?  So if I want to use Media Center to play video I will have to keep my video library in MC20?  Giant pain in the keister.  Everything after Windows 98 is NT anyway.  All Microsoft has done since then is to go to 64 bit (but there was a 64 bit version of XP that they never promoted) and to hide controls from the user to make it less likely that people would screw up.  I built a top-of-the line computer seven years ago only to find out three years later that it could not be "upgraded" to Windows 7.  Planned obsolescence at its finest.  I would hope that JRiver would not be part of the planned obsolescence mania. 

BillT:
You might like to read this thread http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98450.0

(Or perhaps not.)

BryanC:

--- Quote from: lendall on August 19, 2015, 12:42:19 pm ---I built a top-of-the line computer seven years ago only to find out three years later that it could not be "upgraded" to Windows 7.

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How so?

Also, for all intents and purposes, Windows XP is dead and should no longer be considered a secure operating system. It is still OK to use if it is not connected to the internet, but it is already exploitable.

kstuart:

--- Quote from: BryanC on August 19, 2015, 02:01:23 pm ---How so?

Also, for all intents and purposes, Windows XP is dead and should no longer be considered a secure operating system. It is still OK to use if it is not connected to the internet, but it is already exploitable.

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There is a workaround for XP, easily found with a web search, for anyone who can do a simple Registry Edit, that provides up-to-date security updates.

(These are available because MS is actually not killing off XP in certain countries...so it is only a revenue enhancement issue, not a security issue.)

BTW, 7 years ago, Windows Vista was the available operating system, not XP.  Vista was released 8 1/2 years ago, and Win7 6 years ago, so the OP's "top-of-the-line system that cannot be upgraded" does not make any sense.

BryanC:

--- Quote from: kstuart on August 19, 2015, 02:16:31 pm ---There is a workaround for XP, easily found with a web search, for anyone who can do a simple Registry Edit, that provides up-to-date security updates.

(These are available because MS is actually not killing off XP in certain countries...so it is only a revenue enhancement issue, not a security issue.)

BTW, 7 years ago, Windows Vista was the available operating system, not XP.  Vista was released 8 1/2 years ago, and Win7 6 years ago, so the OP's "top-of-the-line system that cannot be upgraded" does not make any sense.

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I knew about the POS workaround but there are fundamental modern security methods (like ASLR) that simply do not work in WinXP. There are also exploits that MS is not fixing in Server 2003 SP1 (http://blogs.cisco.com/security/talos/ms14-063-a-potential-xp-exploit) so they have no hope of making it to POS XP.

That's not even mentioning zero-day exploits that MS is no longer searching for on those platforms.

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