Tuesday 9 April 2013
Microsoft would like to remind you that exactly one year from now, on April 8, 2014, the company will stop supporting Windows XP entirely.
Windows XP’s user shares quickly dropped below 50 percent less than a month after Microsoft announced in July 2011 that support for the OS will stop in 2014.
Full mainstream support for Windows XP ended back in April 2009. Microsoft currently provides extended support for business users, and rolls out security updates for everyone – business user or otherwise.
Stephen L. Rose, Microsoft’s senior product marketing manager for Windows Commercial, wrote on the Springboard blog. “Running Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 in your environment after their end of support date may expose your company to potential risks.”
You won’t be able to update from Windows XP to Windows 8 directly. To be able to make the jump, you need a clean install, which means you need to back up and copy your data over to the new system and reinstall all your old applications
