Windows XP Operating System which was launched about 12 years ago had a great run, a lot of pc’s still use it. In fact, one of my laptops used to run on it till I found out that the support had ended last April 2014. Good thing I had one of the hard drives from one of the laptops my kids accidentally spilled water on (thus burning out the mother board) on hand with a windows 7 Operating System. Basically, end of support means no more technical support, no more product and security updates. What does that mean for the end user? Better upgrade, or all those bad ass viruses will start finding the loopholes in the program that Microsoft was unable to plug and leave your PC vulnerable to all kinds of attack.
Read more here at Windows XP End of support
FOr the other Microsoft Operating Systems – lok below for the schedule of End Of Support.
| Client operating systems | Latest update or service pack | End of mainstream support | End of extended support |
|---|---|---|---|
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Windows XP |
April 14, 2009 |
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Windows Vista |
April 10, 2012 |
April 11, 2017 |
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Windows 7 * |
January 13, 2015 |
January 14, 2020 |
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Windows 8 |
January 9, 2018 |
January 10, 2023 |
* Support for Windows 7 RTM without service packs ended on April 9, 2013. Be sure to install Windows 7 Service Pack 1 today to continue to receive support and updates
Oh, by the way…. Microsoft Office 2003 support also ended at the same time with Windows XP.
Time to upgrade guys!
