According to Microsoft, the lack of patches for XP will increase the likelihood of a malware infection by at least two-thirds. Is that it? That's the big deal everyone's making a fuss over? But after today, Microsoft will stop serving the general public any security patches for vulnerabilities in XP that its researchers or outside bug hunters - criminals included - find. No, an XP machine will boot up and run normally on April 9.
What happens today? Does XP stop working? Windows XP Professional, the business class version of the OS, had already been awarded a retirement date of April 2014.Īt 12 years, five months, Windows XP is the record holder as the longest-lived Microsoft OS. In January 2007, around the time Windows Vista debuted, Microsoft added additional years of support to Windows XP Home, which was originally to lose its patching privileges in January 2009. But didn't Microsoft release Windows XP in 2001? That's more than 10 years.
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