bill - 4:35 am on Apr 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

Windows XP support runs out next week [vnunet.com] Windows XP will pass another milestone on the road to retirement next week when Microsoft withdraws mainstream support for the operating system. While the company said that it will continue to provide free security fixes for XP until 2014, any future bugs found in the platform will not be fixed unless customers pay for additional support. Advertisement Mainstream support for XP will end on 14 April 2009, over seven years after the operating system originally shipped.