Say Goodbye to Windows XP: 2001 – 2014

Windows XP, one of the most widely used, and well known operating systems to ever be created. In 2001 Microsoft released the fifth edition of Windows and little did they know it would turn out to become extremely popular.

When released, the OS was top notch. Having access to the internet, powerful hardware, and a very user friendly user interface it was hard not to like XP. Microsoft was now beginning to compete against its only competitor, Apple, in the operating system market.Recover lost data from iPhone

Windows XP was quickly picked up by both businesses and consumers around the world; you could even say it was the standard of the world for operating systems. As the first release of Windows XP had quite a lot of bugs and security holes to fix, Microsoft ended up creating three massive service packs for Windows XP making it very stable and very reliable.

When the next Windows operating system, Vista, was released five years later, people had become accustomed to the UI and functionality of Windows XP, and, therefore, refused to upgrade. Windows Vista was a huge UI improvement and brought many new functionalities to Windows. However, Vista shipped with more bugs and issues than XP did. Vista also ended up receiving two service packs, slowing the performance down. With the massive number of bugs and not seeing the potential of Windows Vista, many businesses and consumers chose to stay on their Windows XP operating systems, making it even more popular.

Twelve years and three new Windows operating systems later, we have finally reached the end of support for the once loved Windows XP. Microsoft has been consistently reminding users around the world that Windows XP will be losing all support from Microsoft on April 8th 2014.free data recovery on iPhone

So what does this mean if you’re still on a XP PC? Well, with the end of support, Microsoft will be stopping all Windows Updates to any XP device. This means your PC will be open to many security holes, bugs will not be patched, and expect to not be able to use new hardware/software.

If you are still on a PC with Windows XP, I would advise that you either upgrade the PC to a modern OS such as Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 if your machine has the physical capability, or checkout our TSF Build Guide to build yourself a brand new PC to today’s standards.

Ever since the announcement, people on the internet have been planning malware attacks for people that wish not to upgrade. Unless you use a PC that is not connected to the internet, chances are high that you will soon be seeing malware on your PC.