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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. Not a moment too soon! by Afforess · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

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  2. Biting The Hand That Feeds You by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Microsoft has discontinued support for operating systems that ordinary people purchased in good faith in the passed. Each time they do this, larger and larger segments of the population discover that they don't really need Microsoft at all! I will be speaking with my son,as well as my friends who are more technologically literate than I currently am. I don't know at what point this will affect me adversely, (I am still using Windows 98 at work since I am not allowed to change the operating system myself and I am not a high enough priority to my technical department to justify the upgrade in hardware that it would take to install and run a more modern operating system) but whenever it does, I will simply transfer all of my systems to a different operating system. Perhaps the Google android system will be available by then, or maybe I will end up with one of those nice Linux shells, but anytime a commercial venture starts dictating what they will and will not do for their customers, it is time to seriously consider my continued support for that company. End of story!

  3. Re:Ummm by anomaly256 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My favorite part is that it requires windows genuine advantage validation before letting you download such an inane, useless piece of software. Are they afraid of pirates knowing when XP hits EOL?

  4. Re:Ummm by VortexCortex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wrote a JavaScript bookmarklet that displays days till the XP EOL.

    (Just so I could say things like: "Rob, we need approval for those upgrade licenses; we only have 1001.02432 days left")