Death Watch: Microsoft to kill Windows XP in two years

Don't you hate it when you create something so good and so successful that it will never die?  HPUX, ya its still around, Oracle? yep still alive, Windows XP? whoa..

The end is coming. Repent!

That's the message from Microsoft as it reminded consumers that its support for Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 will end on April 8, 2014.

According to Microsoft marketing director Stella Chernyak that means the software giant will nix security updates, non-security hot-fixes and technical support after that date. So let the countdown begin. You now have less than two years to get your affairs in order and hightail it to more current software.

Keep in mind this is "support" for the latest service packs.  As far as I know M$ doesn't have a remote kill switch that would fully disable the OS.  Now if we could get overclockers to realize that Win7 is just as fast as XP we'd be making progress.

(Well except for 3DMark 01, I have proven to myself that XP is faster when using that bench)

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