Microsoft will roll out the next Patch Tuesday updates on May 13

Apr 10, 2014 06:56 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft officially ended support for Windows XP this month, but there’s still hope that the operating system could live on with updates coming straight from the Redmond-based tech giant.

As PCPro is reporting, May 13 is the day when we’re going to finally find out whether Microsoft is really serious about Windows XP’s end of support, as the company is set to roll out the next Patch Tuesday updates during the same day.

Microsoft releases security updates for all its products on the second Tuesday of each month, so May 13 is the first rollout that shouldn’t bring any major improvement for Windows XP.

If something bad occurs in the meantime and hackers find a way to get into Windows XP computers, the Redmond-based software giant could change its mind and actually deliver a fix, especially because 300 million computers out there are still believed to be running the operating system discontinued on April 8.

Of course, Microsoft warned that Windows XP is gone forever, but such a scenario still makes some people dream about extended support for their operating system, mostly because the transition to a newer platform could take more than a few months.

The software giant hasn’t obviously commented on this and do not expect it to do so anytime soon, but releasing a fix for the millions of users still running Windows XP in case a critical security flaw is found would be quite a smart way to show consumers that you really care about them.

Microsoft has been trying to promote its consumer-shaped business for a while, and new CEO Satya Nadella claims that the company really wants to pay more attention to this particular side of the industry.

Windows 8.1 Update, for example, has been specifically tweaked to address consumer complaints coming after deploying Windows 8 and 8.1, so it now has power options right on the Start screen, as well as context menu options to easily access the Modern UI with a mouse and thus make the operating system more appropriate for the PC.

What’s more, the company is also working to bring back the Start menu in a future Windows 8.1 update, which is living proof that Microsoft is going in reverse in order to tweak the operating system to better meet customer expectations. There’s still no word on when the Start menu could be brought back, but expect this to happen sometime this year.