Windows XP has a countdown to the end

Microsoft once again announced on its blog that in more two years will break licenses for your old operating system Windows XP for personal computers, which many users still rely on, despite the releases of its successors Vista and Windows 7.

"We want to welcome the two-year countdown to the end of Windows XP and Office 2003," Microsoft Director of Marketing Stella Chernyak said on the blog.

“Windows XP and Office 2003 were great software in their time, but the technological situation has changed greatly,” he said.

The director recommended computer users, in particular companies, to start “migrating” to the latest versions of programs by the end of XP, on the day April 8th 2014. Windows XP is a family of 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal, home and office computers, notebooks and media centers. The name “XP” derives from eXPerience.

Windows was released on October 25, 2001, and more than 400 million of copies were in use in January 2006. It was succeeded by Windows Vista released to the general public in January 2007. Its sales ceased on June 30, 2008, but it was still possible to purchase new licenses from the system developers. in 2009.

from AFP ppgad@pucrs.br