Microsoft Will End the Support for Windows XP after Two Years Microsoft is ending support for Windows Vista this week as part of an effort to push users to upgrade to Windows 7. Those of you still holding on to Windows XP have two years to spend with the now-antiquated OS before Microsoft pulls the support plug. All support for Windows XP and Office 2003 will end in two years. The company will no longer offer free technical support for customers running Vista, nor will they honor warranty claims for the five-year-old operating system, but it will provide basic support.
Microsoft divides its support lifecycle into two stages: "Mainstream" and "Extended." In the Mainstream phase, software receives the full range of free security updates, stability improvements, bug fixes, and occasional new features. In the Extended phase, only security updates are freely available, though companies with paid support contracts can receive other fixes. Customers will continue to receive critical security updates, and will have the option of paying for support through April 11, 2017. After this point customers will be out of luck, and Microsoft will finally put Windows Vista out of its misery. Vista's gradual decline into obsolescence won't be an issue for most consumers, since most of the computers purchased with Vista installed are able to handle Windows 7. Vista's loss of support shouldn't come as a surprise--after all, Microsoft has been warning users about this day for over three years. Last April, Microsoft cut Vista users out of Internet Explorer 10, claiming that it needed to "take advantage of the ongoing improvements in modern operating systems and modern hardware".
Windows XP and Office 2003 are currently in “Extended” support. Once this ends in 2014, they'll cease receiving even security updates, leaving anyone still using that software vulnerable to whatever malware the Internet throws at them. On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will officially end support for Windows XP and Office 2003, the software giant reminded business users in a blog post this week. "If you still have some PCs running Windows XP and Office 2003 in your organization, now would be a good time to start migrating them to Windows 7 and Office 2010," wrote Microsoft's Stella Chernyak. Chernyak warned against waiting for the next Windows and Office update. "Not only is it important for companies to complete deployment before support runs out, but they should also be aware that by upgrading to Windows 7 and Office 2010 today they can gain substantial results today while laying the foundation for future versions of these products," she wrote.
The much-maligned followup to XP, Windows Vista, is currently in use by 7.65 percent of Windows fans, Net Applications said. Windows XP made its debut in 2001. According to March data from Net Applications, approximately 46.86 percent of global Windows users are still running XP, with 37.54 percent on Windows 7. That's up slightly from February, when 45.39 percent of users were running XP.
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