{"id":620,"date":"2013-12-09T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Is-April-2014-the-Next-Y2K\/ba-p\/335184"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:26:44","slug":"is-april-2014-the-next-y2k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/is-april-2014-the-next-y2k\/","title":{"rendered":"Is April 2014 the Next Y2K?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/enterprise\/endofsupport.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP on April 8th, 2014<\/A>.If your company is still running XP on ANY computers, you should act now.<BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/i.technet.microsoft.com\/cc468658.end-of-support(en-us,MSDN.10).jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.technet.microsoft.com\/cc468658.end-of-support(en-us,MSDN.10).jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/>Here are 3 reasons why you should act:<BR \/><BR \/>1.&nbsp;Your unsupported and unpatched environments could be vulnerable to new exploits that come out after April 2014.<BR \/><BR \/>2. XP may be working just fine, but it&#8217;s more than a decade old.You should upgrade to take advantage of new OS technology.Better memory management for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX<\/A>, better file search, improved User Interface and more.<BR \/><BR \/>3. Your other business applications may no longer be supported after April 2014.<BR \/><BR \/>In 1999, there was the fear that key computers around the world wouldfail and cause a global &#8220;meltdown&#8221; asJanuary 1, 2000 approached.While there wasn&#8217;t a massive &#8220;meltdown&#8221; of computer systems,&nbsp;many companies used this as an opportunity to upgrade their systems,re-evaluate and re-engineer their processes.I can\u2019t think of a better excuse to modernize your PLM system than this.<BR \/><BR \/>Jerry<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP on April 8th, 2014.If your company is still running XP on ANY computers, you should act now.                      &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[226],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","product-nx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}