Exactly one year left until the end of Windows XP technical support

On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will officially discontinue technical support for Windows XP with the third service pack, as well as the Office 2003 office suite.

This event is remarkable primarily because Windows XP, released 12 years ago - August 24, 2001 - continues to be the second most popular operating system in the world. Net Marketshare estimates that it is installed on 38.7% of computers in the world. At the same time, its "competitor" - Windows 7 - was able to get the championship only in September last year.

Another circumstance is also no less curious: less than half of corporate users have migrated from Windows XP to Windows 7 (of course, bypassing intermediate Vista, not even trying to figure out what's new in Windows 8). Trying to answer the question why this is so, Gartner believes that the whole thing is in the budget. Agency analysts estimate the company's transition to 10,000 computers from XP to the "seven" in an amount that ranges from $ 1274 to $ 2069 per desktop. What threatens this state of affairs is that managers responsible for software policy in companies are probably not well understood.
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Microsoft, realizing the popularity of XP, extended the technical support of the system by as much as 4 years back in April 2010, however now it’s hardly possible to hope for its continuation. To inform users about the possibilities of migration to new systems, there is a special site, which you can look at here .