Microsoft announces kill date for XP

Microsoft is counting down the times until it's through with the Windows XP operating system for private computers.

The united states software titan used a blog post to remind the area that during two years it would now not support the generations-old operating system that folk have clung to despite the releases of successors Vista and Windows 7.

"We wish to acknowledge both-year countdown to the tip of Windows XP and Office 2003 support," said Microsoft marketing director Stella Chernyak.

"Windows XP and Office 2003 were great software releases for his or her time, however the technology environment has shifted."

She advised computer users, particularly businesses, to start out "migrating" machines to the most recent versions of the programs well before Microsoft puts XP to rest on April 8, 2014.

- AFP