Bye bye XP

Bye bye XP – Finally

We knew the day was coming regardless of how many cheapskate companies and people refuse to believe but the fact is that at some point a ten year old operating system needs to be declared dead and buried.

Such is the case with Windows XP, and no matter of how great of a workhorse that the XP version of Windows was, there comes a point when no amount of duct tape and binder twine will keep this old beast up to the needs of the future.

The fact is that even at this point XP has lived long past its supposed expiration date, thanks in part to everyone’s great reluctance to upgrade to Vista, and now Microsoft has come out and said quite bluntly – enough is enough, there is 1,000 days left until all support for XP will stop.

From the Springboard Series Blog at Microsoft:

On April 8, 2014, security patches and hotfixes for all versions of Windows XP will no longer be available. So bottom line, PC’s running Windows XP will be vulnerable to security threats. Furthermore, many third party software providers are not planning to extend support for their applications running on Windows XP, which translates to even more complexity, security risks, and ultimately, added management costs for your IT department if you’re still managing Windows XP environments.

Seriously though people, XP is done, toast, baked. It’s time to join the future and get moved over to Windows 7 which by all accounts is a pretty damn good version of Windows and I think having sold 400 million licenses if pretty indicative of just how good it is.

So let’s hope that the next mock funeral procession that Microsoft employees hold will be for XP. IT’s time is done. It’s time to move on.

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