On Tuesday, April 8, Microsoft will no longer be sending updates to users of Windows XP users. Windows XP has been in use since 2001 and with no security patches being sent out, users will have to rely on their own in dealing with cyber-treats.
Japan Today posted an article on this:
SAN FRANCISCO —People clinging to Microsoft’s aging Windows XP operating system will be left to fend off cyber criminals by themselves come Tuesday.
On April 8, the U.S. software colossus will stop patching newly found security holes in Windows XP code that hackers could exploit to slip into computers.
Despite Microsoft’s long-heralded plan to stop “supporting” the nearly 13-year-old operating system, it still powers from 20 to 30 percent of Windows machines around the world, according to industry estimates.As my computers operate on Windows 7 (I still use my old PC with Windows 98, but it is no longer hooked up to the Internet), this does not present a problem to me.
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