End of support and updates (including security) officially released by Microsoft for Windows XP from April 2014.
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It is now entirely official: in just under three months, Microsoft will cease to provide support for Windows XP.
The now-dated operating system – still widely used by approximately 30% of machines worldwide – will no longer receive any updates, not just system updates but also security updates, starting April 8, 2014.
In addition to the discontinuation of product support itself, Microsoft has also planned for the complete cessation of support for Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows XP on the same date.
This means that the PC protection system equipped with Windows XP will inevitably be inadequate and flawed, posing potential high risks to the security of your data and documents on your PC.
Even within Microsoft itself – through Tim Rains – there is no hiding the highly probable disastrous consequences of the situation that will arise in April: one month after the “retirement” of updates for Windows XP, there will certainly be an escalation of intrusion attempts by hackers seeking to exploit vulnerabilities in the old operating system for attacks.
This will not be difficult to carry out: these individuals and organizations will simply study the patches used by OS versions after XP to “plug” security holes.
A far from comforting scenario, for which the only viable solution appears to be inevitable: transition to a new and more updated operating system, such as Windows 8.1.
Alternatively, you can explore options for migrating to other open-source platforms if you no longer wish to use Microsoft’s operating system.
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