Relating to windows XP; it’s been a good run, but stragglers might consider finally making
the jump to a more recent Windows
operating system after reading this report. Tim Rains, Director of
Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, reminded Windows users last week on a TechNet blog post that Microsoft will no longer provide
support for Windows XP after April
8th, 2014, effectively ending any security updates to the dying OS. Microsoft
has already stopped supporting Windows XP Service Pack 2, and within two years
“its malware infection rate was 66 percent higher than Windows XP Service Pack
3.”
Similar
results are expected in the months and years following the final
updates for Service Pack 3, the last supported version of Windows XP. Whether
or not you like Windows 8, the
fact is that Microsoft’s most recent OS currently has an infection rate that is
six times smaller than that of XP. If you are worried about malware and
viruses, newer is almost always better.
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