The Rapid Obsolescence Of Windows XP

Windows XP has an outsized life is explained by the refusal had been shown by companies and individuals to switch to Vista. Faced with such resistance, Microsoft has been forced to repeatedly extend the life of Windows XP and therefore to also extend its support. If it officially ends in 2014, leaving a few more years to prepare to migrate, in fact users of Windows XP may be much earlier in a situation increasingly difficult.

The announced end of support for Windows XP
Support Service Pack 2 for Windows XP released in 2004 will expire in July this year, users have
deployed the service pack 3 after its release in 2008 will be supported until April 2014.

If some users are hoping that Microsoft will extend again the duration of support for Windows XP, it is likely they will be disappointed. The success of Windows 7, in contrast to the refusal of Vista, should leave no doubt about it, Microsoft had no reason to once again extend the
life of a system that acknowledge a decade in a few months.

A recent American study showed that nearly half the business positions XP only supported service
pack 2. This configuration is no longer supported in the next two months, it will become urgent
soon be installing SP3, or accelerate the migration to Windows 7.

The new PC will not soon be installed with Windows XP
It is also noted that the right to reinstall Windows XP on a new machine came with Windows 7,
expires with the availability of Service Pack 1 of Windows 7.


This service pack is expected to fall or at latest by the end of the year, it will soon be possible to install Windows XP on new machines, unless they have the appropriate licenses in connection a contract in volume.

The arrival of non-compatible applications
If the foregoing were known, the issue of support for Windows XP has recently resurfaced with Internet Explorer 9 ads and the next version of Live services.

By unveiling the end of 2009 the future of its browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 explained would use for the first time the power of graphics cards to accelerate the display of Internet content.


This will make it possible to visualize complex animations with great fluidity, moving rapidly in satellite photos or videos to run multiple simultaneous browser.

This unprecedented level of performance will be achieved through outsourcing to the graphics card (GPU) is responsible for the display rather than recovering the single microprocessor (CPU) for all functions, as is the case all current
browsers.

Internet Explorer 9 Direct2D use to do this, a set of programming interfaces introduced with
Windows 7 and which has been carrying an overhead on Vista.
The problem is that these developments are based on the model of graphics card drivers
appeared with Vista and therefore absent from Windows XP. In other words, it is technically not possible to take advantage of these new features with Windows XP and Microsoft has said that Internet Explorer 9 will not be available under this system.

It was also revealed recently that the situation will be similar for the next version of Live services known as the Wave 4. These applications whose arrival is imminent now require at least SP2 vista, even if the next Hotmail or Web services such as SkyDrive will not be affected.


For similar reasons, Microsoft has announced that these applications can not be installed under Windows XP.

Microsoft pushes He commend the obsolescence of Windows XP?
This is what some accuse the editor, including Mozilla and Google, which remind us of their
future browsers will support them Windows XP.

Although Microsoft clearly wants to see customers adopting Windows 7, the fact remains that Windows XP is a system that has nearly ten
years and that some technological breakthroughs brought about Vista are required to take advantage of display characteristics of the future
Internet Explorer 9 as Live Essentials Wave 4.

Jump to want to level out any development from
below, it is difficult to blame Microsoft for wanting to exploit the graphical features of its new OS.

Workarounds and limits
It will of course always possible to use Internet Explorer 8 with Windows XP, as well as current
versions of Messenger, Live Photo Gallery's, .... Nothing prevents a user to also consider the installation of Chrome or Firefox if it wishes to use a browser that supports HTML 5 standard being
specified.

He cons risk of being more difficult, even impossible, to connect new types of devices to a
PC running Windows XP.

Either because he oiled services to be absent from Windows XP, like support for USB 3.0 for example and that is expected with the SP1 of
Windows 7, or simply by a device manufacturer decides not to develop drivers for Windows XP
but only for Windows 7.

In any event, it will become more and more constraints continue to work under Windows XP as and as time progresses and this well before
the target date of 2014 that marked the end of official support.

Evidence suggests, however, that unless you are unable to migrate, most current users of Windows XP will by then adopted Windows OS
7 or changed.

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