Windows XP
Software giant Microsoft has officially revealed the price and retail variants of Windows 8.1 . Redmond-based company is also urging users of Windows XP operating system to immediately migrate to the Windows 8.1 operating system since it will soon be discontinued support.
In the previous news has been revealed that Microsoft will discontinue all support for Windows XP operating system on April 8, 2014, including the termination of security updates. Microsoft also wanted the user to the operating system that was launched in 2001 is to immediately migrate to a modern operating system.
Company recently annexed Nokia's phone business with confidence offers users of Windows XP to migrate to Microsoft's latest operating system, ie Windows 8.1 which is an improvement of Windows 8 is somewhat less successful.
"The consumer business is still running Windows XP need to accelerate the testing and migration to modern operating systems - such as Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 - as soon as possible before the end of the support occurred on April 8, 2014.""If you are currently using Windows 7, begin to evaluate Windows 8.1 for all devices, including touch screen and mouse and keyboard," an official statement of Microsoft .
As quoted from Softpedia (17/09/2013), this step is done to increase the user base of Microsoft Windows 8 operating system which is still fairly small compared to Windows XP and Windows 7.
Currently Windows XP operating system controls about 33% desktop operating system market, compared with Windows 8 that only holds about 7.4% of the market. While Windows 7 is still dominate the desktop operating system market.
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