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The Tech Report: News:  Microsoft ends mainstream support for Windows XP

Fudzilla:  Windows XP mainstream support has ended

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Microsoft ends mainstream support for Windows XP
The Tech Report: News — ... , though, a decent number of firms may take until then—or shortly before—to upgrade to Windows 7. This change puts Microsoft in a strange position: it's officially backing off support for an operating system that, apparently, the majority of Windows users are still hanging onto. The latest Net Applications figures suggest that Windows XP had a 62.9% worldwide market share last month, while Windows Vista was still way behind with a usage share of just 23.4%. Tags: ...

Windows XP mainstream support has ended
Fudzilla — ... . This basically means no more non-security-related hot fixes and no free support for Win XP users, but enterprise users extended support phase will last until April 8, 2014, which is plenty of time to upgrade to whatever Microsoft wants them to upgrade to. We realize that switching to Vista and eventually Win 7 is of utmost importance to Microsoft, but we d really appreciate if they could listen, and we mean really listen to their customers for once. The latest figures show that XP accounts for 62.9% global OS market share, whereas Vista is at 23.4%. Additionally, from ...

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