Microsoft will retire Windows XP on April 8, so we’re getting closer to end of support

Jan 16, 2014 04:19 GMT  ·  By

Windows XP remains a very popular operating system, but despite the big market share it has right now, Microsoft plans to discontinue it on April 8 this year.

If the company doesn’t change its plans, this means that only three more Patch Tuesdays will see Windows XP on the market and, just like WindowsITPro reports, the operating system would then become fully vulnerable to attacks.

This month, Windows XP got its zero-day flaw patched, while we’re hearing that Microsoft has also silently fixed the SVCHOST error that caused CPU usage to skyrocket when launching Windows Update.

Microsoft hopes that Windows XP’s 28 percent market share would drop to 13 percent by April and even though that seems to very unlikely, it’s still a sign that Redmond should delay the end of support a little bit, just to make sure that everyone is ready for the big moment.