Microsoft decided that they were no going to support their operating system Windows XP, in attempt to move the current XP users to the newer operating systems Microsoft Vista, 7 and 8. This actually was going to take place 3 years back, except many of the corporate clients where not ready to move to the new operating systems so Microsoft decided that they would continue to support XP for 3 years to accommodate the needs of the clients. So it was not really a surprise when Microsoft said it was not going to support XP anymore. The real story was that they stopped supporting the operating system 3 years ago for the home user, and last month they stopped doing the updates for the operating systems and the security system. This is where the real problems began once they stopped patching the operating system the people who send out viruses flooded the internet with known viruses. At this time you would continue to be ok to use the operating system as long you are using a third party antiviruses to protect your computer.
It would be ok to continue to use the XP operating system but you need to find an antivirus that will update at least once a week. Do a virus scan weekly, I found if I use the portable free deep scan provided by spybot search and destroy once a week my Microsoft Windows XP computers are running fine. I have performed the scan on user’s computers and everything works just fine, but you should think about upgrading your computer system as Windows XP is 7 + years old.
I was asked the other day if I thought that Microsoft could be responsible for sending out the virus to force people to move to the new operating system, I thought for a long time about this question. I thought of the positive for Microsoft this would boost the sales of the new operating system at 250.00 to 500.00 per unit. Then I looked at the Problems this could cause, it might push the users to a different operating system like Linux that is free. So to this question I would have to say I don’t think that would benefit Microsoft so I do not think that Microsoft would have done that.
