XP end of life is formal; the cut off date for support and security of the XP system cut-off date has arrived, April 8.
The famed system with a swath of loyal followers has been on a scheduled plan by Microsoft for months; After 13 years of service and support for the XP operating system still enjoys many followers.
Remarkably reports incidated that Microsoft has not been entirely sucessfull in weening off XP loyalists from the system, despite ending support and security features.
Net Applications reported that 44 percent of desktop Windows machines are on XP.
Still on XP?
StatCounter analysts say that 17% of tab, desktop and console users useXP. At the same time analyst firm, Net Marketshare places the disktop on a higher than that at 28 percent.
A March Post report said in March, "The U.S. government is among the Microsoft customers who just couldn't let go. At the time "despite a recent rush to complete upgrades," an estimated 10 percent of several million government computers were expected to miss the upgrade deadline. That estimate includes thousands of computers on military and diplomatic networks that secure classified information, U.S. officials told Craig Timberg and Ellen Nakashima."
The U.S. is not alone in its IT problems, Europe is right up there with adanced computing technology impeding daily funcition of the governmental activities. The U.K. and Dutch governments have paid a handsome some of money to continue support for the XP.
A report last week said, "In truth, nothing will immediately change. End-of-support does not negatively impact existing XP installations in any way. No features will be disabled, no upgrades will be forced, and even technical support will still be relatively easy to come across. Literally millions of articles have been published about tweaking or fixing XP, and they won’t disappear overnight.
Why switch your cperating system when you're XP fits like a glove?
XP SP 3 will be supported for years. But if you 're on Servi Pak 2, you wil need to be careful
Works on older/less powerful hardware: So you don't have to reinvent the wheel, trying to find divers or other supporting software. If you're XP is holding up, wait to buy a new PC. Be mindful that the recession economy is still lingering and it is worth watching your every tech expense.
Everything works on XP. This is true because you don't have to worry if your software will work.
XP is stable and reliable and has few crashes, if any.
So for the time being ensure your PC works with XP and decide to switch at a later time, if that is necessary.
