It’s official, Windows XP is now a decade old operating system. Microsoft released Windows XP to manufacturing on August 24th, 2001, exactly 10 years ago today.
According to statistics from Net Applications, XP still accounts for an usage share of 49.69% as of the end of July 2011, but Windows 7 is closing in rapidly, being used by some 27.92% of customers tracked by the Internet metrics company.
Support for Windows XP will be discontinued entirely in April 2014, and Microsoft is not planning any additional upgrades after the release of Service Pack 3 (SP3).
Happy Birthday XP. You served us well.
James Hickman
itech.co.uk
Wednesday, 24th August 201
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