14 DAY TRIAL // Windows XP will soon be discontinued, so Microsoft wants most – if not all – users to migrate to a newer operating system, be it Windows 7 or 8.
The company will no longer offer security updates and patches for XP as of April 8, 2014, so users who stick to the ancient operating system will be prone to attacks, viruses, and spyware.
Microsoft has come down to a different kind of analogy this time, again trying to emphasize that Windows XP is no longer an operating system you can rely on.
“When XP goes out of support, it’ll be a lot like driving a car that you can’t buy parts for anymore,” Jay Paulus, Microsoft’s director of Windows small-business marketing, was quoted as saying by Washington Post.
Users, on the other hand, don’t seem to be quite interested in Microsoft’s decision to retire XP, so the aging software is still the second most popular operating system in the world.