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Microsoft Pulling the Plug On Windows XP In Three Years

Posted by Unknown on from the kill-it-with-fire dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in with an article from myce. Microsoft will be discontinuing all support for Windows XP in Spring 2014. Coinciding with the announcement, Microsoft released a 1,000-day countdown gadget to help XP users pass the time until their IT departments get into gear. Maybe.

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  1. Re:Not a moment too soon! by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many other companies are expected to maintain 10+ year old software, even after TWO new releases (Vista, Win7) are available?

    Hmm, perhaps companies that were still selling that 'ten year old software' on new systems last year?

  2. Re:Not a moment too soon! by Spad · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just like how my house is only 3 years old, because that's when I moved into it. I mean sure, it was built in the 60s, but that hardly counts.