14 DAY TRIAL // Windows XP will be soon discontinued and even if many users have expressed their intention to stick to this operating system beyond its retirement date, PC manufacturers across the world applaud Microsoft’s decision.
HP is one of the companies that are seeing the XP end of support as a significant opportunity for the future, especially because many users would be forced to make the move to either Windows 8 or Windows 7.
“Goodbye XP, hello HP,” the company said in a press conference this week.
“The end of technical support for Windows XP on April 2014 will be an excellent opportunity for HP to help users transition to Windows 7 or Windows 8,” Enrique Lores, senior vice-president of business PCs and solutions at HP, was quoted as saying by IT Pro.
“HP’s ambition is to be a Microsoft preferred partner that will deliver the devices that will help consumers and business users make the most of these operating systems.”
HP has also announced that its newest products won’t support Windows XP anymore, so users who purchase them would have no other option than to stick to either Windows 7 or Windows 8.
This could be only good news for Microsoft, as the Softies still struggle to convince consumers across the world to abandon the 11-year-old operating system.
The company says with every single occasion that sticking to Windows XP beyond the retirement date is a risky decision, as an unpatched system would expose their data and allow hackers to easily break into their computers.
At this point, Windows XP is the second most popular operating system in the world and it’s still installed on approximately 38 percent of computers worldwide. Its market share is indeed declining, but only at a rather slow pace, so lots of users would most likely still run XP after April 8, 2014.