Microsoft ramps up XP scaremongering in upgrade bid

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Vendor claims old operating system is six times less secure than Windows 8

Microsoft has beefed up its rhetoric designed to move customers off XP and on to its new Windows 8 platform by claiming the old OS is six times less secure than its newer counterpart. Support fo...

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