Microsoft cooperates with 360 to provide XP shutdown Security Service

Microsoft's China official has announced cooperation with 360 companies to provide security protection services to Chinese XP users, as well as WINDOWS8 upgrade programs. This January, Microsoft announced that XP would stop service on April 8, 2014. According to third party data, at least 200 million users in China still use XP.

As early as February 26 this year, 360 announced that it will continue to provide security protection after Windows XP has stopped serving. February 28, 360 companies launched 360 security guards "XP Shield", and said that XP users in the online shopping, if the Trojan or phishing site suffered economic losses, can get 360 online purchase of the first payment.

The following is the full text of Microsoft Chinese official text:

"To better provide the best solution for the domestic Windows XP users during the upgrade transition, Microsoft China has been working closely with the leading Internet security and anti-virus vendors." Today, we work with the well-known security software company Qihoo 3,601, for the vast number of XP users in the country to continue to provide transitional security protection services, as well as convenient Windows 8 upgrade program. In addition, once again we are sincerely prompted:

First, Windows XP will retire on April 8, 2014, and users ' Windows XP machines can still be used after April 8.

Second, although your Windows XP computer will not suddenly stop working after April 8, the 13-year-old product is not enough to meet the needs of the Internet era and is not sufficient to deal with the ever-changing network security threats. Because of this, the leading Internet security companies in China and Microsoft together to recommend users to upgrade to the next generation of operating systems.

Third, no matter what kind of security products, for a stop system-level security update of the operating system, its protective effect is limited.

Four, we recommend that users move as early as possible to upgrade to a new generation of Windows operating system, better adapt to the latest network, hardware and software environment, and access to unprecedented security.

Thank you again for many years of love for Windows XP, we will do our best for users smooth and smooth upgrade of the transition escort. ”