14 DAY TRIAL // Windows XP will be officially retired on April 8, 2014, and together with it, Redmond will also cut off Security Essentials support for this particular OS version.
Kaspersky’s anti-virus products, on the other hand, will continue to work on Windows XP after April 8, the company officially announced, which means that users sticking to this platform will still be protected.
According to a report by CIOL, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 will both continue to work on Windows XP for an unspecified period of time, while Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 will stop providing support for Windows XP in the second quarter of 2016.
Windows XP continues to be one of the top operating systems on the market, with data provided by Net Applications pointing out that it’s installed on nearly 28 percent of computers worldwide.