Microsoft Technical support for Windows XP operating system

April 18, 2014, Microsoft's technical support for Windows XP operating system will stop, in a sense, this means the "death" of XP. Many XP users complain about Microsoft's approach, but in the PC sector, which is the sunset industry, many vendors are looking forward to the "death" of XP, which will boost computer consumer demand, the most typical of which is Intel and HP.

Microsoft has told XP users on its website: "If your organization has not yet considered migrating to a more modern computer, you may be late." ”

If the world's massive XP users are worried, HP and Intel are looking forward to the "death" of XP earlier.

According to foreign media reports, at the recent earnings analyst meeting, "We are leading the migration from XP to other systems, and Microsoft may have told you that we may be the leader in the spread of XP upgrades, we have actually been preparing for a year and everything is going well," said HP's chief executive, Walt Whitman, in response to an analyst question. ”

Recently, Kirk-skaugen, general manager of Intel's PC customer division, also said that next April, XP technical support will stop, and we believe that the PC industry boosted by hardware upgrades, regardless of whether XP users migrate to Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, this will bring great changes to the computer industry.

Many technology web sites have found that there are still many computers that still have XP operating systems installed. The latest statistics from net-applications, a market research firm, find that the market share of XP is still staggering at 31% per cent in global computer operating systems.

In the Chinese market, XP is the largest computer operating system. Market research firm StatCounter October statistics show that XP in the domestic market share of 54.13%,windows 7, only 38.01%, second place.

It is important to point out that, now in the mobile internet age, consumers have been using smartphones and tablets much longer than desktops and notebooks, and traditional computer operating systems have almost the only function: Running Chrome, Firefox and other browsers. In this context, there is no need to "toss", the XP system to upgrade to the Microsoft Update system.