
It’s not very nice, but you could use Splashtop online and Windows XP offline. This is installed under a variety of names: Asus ExpressGate, HP QuickWeb, and so on.

Some netbooks and laptops already include a solution in the form of a separate Linux-based operating system called Splashtop. Less knowledgeable and less vigilant users should change. Someone with safe surfing habits and good backups could keep using XP, though I wouldn’t recommend it.


XP will keep on working, but it will be more dangerous to use it, because malware writers will be able to find security holes in XP by examining the patches for later versions of Windows. Microsoft will soon stop releasing security patches for Windows XP, though it will continue to provide updates for its anti-virus program, Microsoft Security Essentials.
