14 DAY TRIAL // Windows XP will be retired in less than one year, so Microsoft has increased its efforts to remind users that giving up the 11-year-old operating system and moving to a newer one is a priority.
Microsoft New Zealand Managing Director Paul Muckleston explained that Windows XP is still on the safe side for the time being, but that’s going to change very soon, once the company stops providing support for this particular operating system. The retirement date for XP is April 8, 2014.
“[Windows XP was] not designed to handle today's computing environment or cope with advanced cyber-attacks and the challenges of maintaining data privacy,” he was quoted as saying by Stuff.co.nz.
At this point, Windows XP is the second most popular operating system in the world, with a market share of more than 38 percent at a global level, according to market researcher Net Applications.