14 DAY TRIAL // Windows XP will be officially discontinued on April 8, 2014, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that all users will move to another platform by that date.
What’s more, software developers across the world are announcing one by one that their apps will continue to support Windows XP for many years from now on, but IObit has prepared some pretty exciting news for those still running the 13-year-old operating system.
The company behind several popular apps, including Advanced Systemcare and IObit Uninstaller, revealed today that Driver Booster, a dedicated app that helps you scan, find, update and tweak all the device drivers found on your computer, will continue to work on Windows XP forever.
That’s right, Driver Booster will provide life-time support for Windows XP, which means that in case you stick to this ancient platform and you experience driver issues, this is the right app to try.
“After April, it could be frustrated for Windows XP users to find and install the right drivers for their old Windows XP PC. Without up-to-date drivers, system cannot run at its peak performance and might even suffer problems, which can lead to system slow down, frozen, even system crashes. Sometimes, some vulnerabilities and security holes left by obsolete drivers might induce unexpected problems,” the company said in an announcement that will be made public later today.
“In IObit’s plan, its database will be continuously and timely expanded to deal with the potential problem caused by the termination of support for Windows XP.”
Windows XP is at this point installed on 29 percent of desktop computers worldwide and if no miracle happens until April, plenty of users are very likely to stick to this particular platform despite end of support.
Microsoft, of course, wants everyone to move to a newer platform as soon as possible, with Windows 8.1 obviously promoted as the right alternative for everyone.
The problem with the transition to Windows 8.1 is the final cost of the process, as moving from Windows XP to the modern platform also requires hardware upgrades because an old computer cannot cope with its system requirements.
Obviously, not everyone is willing to do it, so Windows XP is very likely to maintain a pretty big market share after April 8, which means that thousands of computers out there could become vulnerable overnight if hackers find a critical security flaw that can be exploited to compromise unpatched systems.