In situation you've been residing under a stone, assistance for Microsoft organization windows XP finishes on Apr 8, 2014.
And Microsoft torganization has a concept for you: "If your organization has not began the migration to a contemporary pc, you are delayed," the organization says on its Support Ends Website.
That has HP and Apple, obviously, giddy with the leads of improvements to new components.
Here's what Meg Whitman, HP's CEO, said previously this 7 days during the organization's income organization contact, addressing an analyst's query.
"So, we're major...the migration off of XP. And we actually -- I think, Microsof organization would probably tell you -- we're among the management with regards to spearheading that migration. We've been on this for well over a season, and it's actually going fairly well," she said.
And Intel's gm of the PC Customer Team, Kirk Skaugen, discussing the 7 days before, isn't exactly rueing the day, either.
"Remember, Microsoft organization windows XP [support] end of lifestyle is in Apr so we have assurance that the organization renew which generally comes with a components update is going our way...whether they shift to Microsoft organization windows seven or Microsoft organization windows 8.1 that's a big modify for organization," he said during the organization's trader conference."
The operating-system-that-won't-die has been around since 2001. It got a new rental on lifestyle when its heir, Windows vista, was announced a catastrophe back in 2006.
There are still a lot of XP customers out there, according to an unscientific study CNET conduced in June.
New Nov information from Net Programs reveals XP stubbornly having onto a 31 % pc organization.
So, you have to wonder, how many of those asked previously by CNET want to keep using XP? Possibilities are there are more than a few.
Are they as giddy at the leads as HP and Intel? We'll discover out on Apr 8.
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