XP officially retired today Microsoft 30 percent selling Windows 8

Related reports: XP system officially retired today Microsoft: it has been in service for many years. Microsoft Windows XP April 8 formal retirement comprehensive Beijing Times reporter Guo Menglin Liao Feng Xinhua News agency said today that Microsoft will officially stop its technical support for Windows XP, although users can continue to use the system, But continued use of security risks increased. The reporter learned that in order to encourage users to migrate to a higher version of the system, Microsoft has with 360, Tencent reached a joint effort to launch WINDOWS8 preferential upgrade plan, the price is equivalent to 30 percent of the original value. >> retired hackers or will "do-it-Yourself" Windows XP operating system has been running for more than 12 years. Some network experts believe that hackers may have mastered the new approach to the capture of the XP operating system, may be "hands-on" after the security service has stopped. "Millions of computer systems will stop receiving regular security updates," said Christopher Poge, head of Trustwave, global information security services. "That would obviously trigger a panic, as there will be new loopholes." "Talking about the current scope of XP systems, Pogue says, XP systems are everywhere," from police stations to banks, from the judiciary to restaurants. Everyone faces the same danger. " >> discount 30 percent upgradeable Win8 from April 8 to April 10 11:59 P.M., users can be in the 360 official website members, Tencent Computer Butler forum to obtain WIN8 online release software version of the preferential Code, the use of code, just spend 299 yuan can be upgraded to WIN8. In addition, users can also be in the QQ Browser forum and the official microblogging back to support Win8 reasons, you can get the preferential code. With this preferential code, users can upgrade to WIN8 at the Microsoft Official Mall at a price of 299 yuan, and then upgrade to Windows8.1 for free. The offer was nearly 70% cheaper than the previous 888 yuan price. Microsoft said the offer was also a way to help as many XP users as possible upgrade in a more economical manner to address security issues and get a better network experience. The WIN8 purchased through this activity can be used as long as it is activated within one year. >> remind me to make the last patch. In addition to upgrades, users can also choose to protect against XP with Third-party security software. It is understood that some of the domestic security companies have launched a corresponding protection software, such as Tencent Computer Butler (XP exclusive version), Jinshan poison PA (XP shield), 360 security guards (XP shields) and "Windows XP Migration Assistant" and so on. But experts say the solution to the protection software is temporary. Jinshan Poison PA Safety experts Tiejun suggested that if you want to continue to use XP after April 8, should choose to use USB device control, deployment anti-virus software, the use of software restrictions and other strategies, do a good job of anti-virus, backup and moderately broken network. In addition, today coincides with Microsoft "Patch Tuesday" Release date, Microsoft will also be the last time for XP and officE2003 Push security update. According to a Microsoft Security bulletin, the XP system will receive critical patches for IE6, 7 and 8, while Office2003 will get a critical patch for MicrosoftPublisher2003. XP users can get patch updates from the Microsoft Download Center. It is understood that Lenovo has also set up more than 2,400 "Windows XP Rescue Station" for different computer brands of Windows XP users from the line to the offline rescue and upgrade assistance. XP Challenge Follow-up 360 should be questioned: not with the organizer of the Beijing Times News (reporter Gu Xiaoyu Liao Feng) Recently, in a "XP Challenge" competition, Tencent, Jinshan security software are hackers breached, only 360 of the product can be saved. Questions about the game continued to emerge after the games. Yesterday, 360 of companies responded to these queries. For the match before the result of a press release, 360 indicates that the search engine error shows the time of the news collection, for the alleged and tournament organizers of the relationship between the day, 360 denied. As for the special version of the software, 360 said the hacker challenge of the "360XP Shield a 2.0 version" in the 360 official website and website forum have provided a download link. As for the results of the XP challenge, Tencent's computer steward said: "Just like two banks are safer than security, one of the doors shut down is not normal service, a door open, so there is no comparability." Tencent Computer Butler also asked: "You do not see the user complained that the" shield a "many services can not use it? "We do not see this as a game at the expense of user experience, in addition to qishidaoming, there is no practical significance of security, we disdain compared with it!" Tencent said.