Microsoft spent most of this week talking up its new tablet-friendly Windows 8 operating system, but the fact is the majority of enterprises haven't even moved to Windows 7 yet. They may want to get moving, as a senior company official warned that there will be no life extension for Windows XP and related products beyond 2014.
"We are end-of-lifing XP and Office 2003 and everything prior, in April 2014," said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, during a meeting with financial analysts Wednesday. "So for all those companies that have the old products that haven't quite started the refresh, guess what? This has been a great product, XP has been a wonderful product; great TCO has been given. It's now time for it to go."
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He speaks the truth. They also need to stop releasing new windows so soon. It takes about 5 or more years until most people change their OS. So there is no need to rush.
Your normal businesses that use desktop computers and stuff will not use Windows 8. Trust me, I tried the (legal) dev build, it has NO place on a desktop computer. I'll be sticking to Win7.
Upgrading can be a hassle, but I think it would be a mistake from a security perspective to continue running XP once MS stop supporting it all together in 2014.