I am by no stretch of the imagination a computer buff. I have been using XP since it was launched and now use it for my FH running on Parellels as a virtual machine on my Mac and on my Samsung net-boook (NC-10) when out and about. Dire warnings keep coming my way about the dangers of continuing to use XP after April 8th. My Samsung is too old to update to Win 8.1, I’m sure and a new laptop/netbook is not in the budget. 2 questions please- Is there any chance of FH having a Mac version in the very near future / ever? (I should have asked Simon when we were chatting at WDYTYA?Live) If not - what do you computer experts recommend for my situation? I do NOT want to change from FH to a Mac based programme. David David Gynes [email protected]

Hi David, Microsoft continue to discover significant security holes in XP but those not fixed by 8th April will remain a security risk. It is claimed that XP is 6 times more risky than Windows 8. That applies whether it runs on its own PC or within a virtual PC such as Parallels. However, XP won't suddenly stop working and if you don't connect it to the Internet or load rogue CD/pen-drive software it poses no risk. With great care and caution and up-to-date anti-virus and Firewall software you may mitigate the online risks to some degree. The is NO likelihood of a Mac version of FH nor AS in the foreseeable future. However, it is likely that FH & AS will be usable with the Crossover & (free) Wine emulators. See the FHUG Knowledge Base article and Forum threads on recent progress. http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=how_to:install_family_historian_with_crossover_wine http://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=10907 in its later pages. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Gynes Sent: 20 March 2014 15:27 To: FHUG Subject: [FHU] XP's demise I am by no stretch of the imagination a computer buff. I have been using XP since it was launched and now use it for my FH running on Parellels as a virtual machine on my Mac and on my Samsung net-boook (NC-10) when out and about. Dire warnings keep coming my way about the dangers of continuing to use XP after April 8th. My Samsung is too old to update to Win 8.1, I'm sure and a new laptop/netbook is not in the budget. 2 questions please- Is there any chance of FH having a Mac version in the very near future / ever? (I should have asked Simon when we were chatting at WDYTYA?Live) If not - what do you computer experts recommend for my situation? I do NOT want to change from FH to a Mac based programme. David David Gynes [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

<<snipped>> I have been using XP since it was launched and now use it for my FH running on Parellels as a virtual machine on my Mac and on my Samsung net-boook (NC-10) when out and about. Dire warnings keep coming my way about the dangers of continuing to use XP after April 8th. <<snipped>> I would suggest that the practical nature of the danger depends on how you use the XP virtual machine on the Mac, ditto the Samsung. If you only use browser and email on the Mac side of the Mac - in effect if the *only* thing you use in Windows on the Mac is FH, then you are pretty much OK because you are pretty much insulated from any Windows-nasties coming at you from the internet. This means that if you download images from Ancestry or FMP or whatever (and it's the "whatever" that is the serious risk) then you should do so within a browser on the Mac side, *not* in a browser in XP. There is a risk that you could download a Windows nasty within your Mac browser that sits on the disk, waiting for the opportunity to be picked up by a Windows session. For that reason, you should run a security system on the Mac. As for the Sammy, well, again it depends on what you do with it. The safest thing would be not to use the internet or email on the Sammy. Adrian B PS - re a Mac version of FH - given the huge nature of rewriting the software plus the need to maintain 2 different versions doing the same thing, I'd rather Simon produced an Android version first! I suspect the market for that would be larger.