A business owner must understand the licensing status of their company's software, but this has grown more complicated since the inception of the Internet. If you feel like your employees, or maybe even your corporate culture survives off of pirated software or applications, or stuff you found "for free" online, then your business could potentially suffer from legal issues.
The Death of Windows XP has made its way into the forefront of IT news for the past year. We're only a week away from April 8, the last day of official support. Customers constantly ask whether their computers will stop running on April 9, afraid that Microsoft has hidden some sort of time bomb into the operating system that would render it unbootable after support ends.
No, there are no hidden time bombs (that we know about, anyway). However, once support ends, several major things will immediately happen.
1. Vendors will stop testing software, web sites, and devices with Windows XP.
Don't expect the latest version of Quickbooks or that new printer to run on an obsolete operating s... 
