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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. 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?

  3. 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")