{"id":51,"date":"2012-11-27T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nccomputertech.wordpress.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-11-27T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:24:09","slug":"windows-xp-countdown-clock-ticks-under-500-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2012\/11\/27\/windows-xp-countdown-clock-ticks-under-500-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP countdown clock ticks under 500 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows XP has fewer than 500 days left to live, according to Microsoft and third-party countdown clocks.<br \/>\nThe 11-year-old operating system will exit support April 8, 2014, when Microsoft serves users with their final security updates.<br \/>\nOn Saturday, the retirement countdown clocks offered by Microsoft and others flipped from 500 to 499 days, or a shade under 17 months.<br \/>\nMicrosoft provides a countdown gadget for Windows XP\u2019s support demise. Ironically, the gadget runs only on Windows 7, the 2009 OS that most customers have adopted after departing XP.<br \/>\nU.K.-based Camwood is counting down the days on its website until Windows XP support ends.<br \/>\nCamwood, a U.K.-based company that specializes in helping businesses migrate their machines to newer operating systems and software, has posted a similar clock on its website. Like Microsoft\u2019s gadget, Camwood\u2019s also showed 499 days remaining on Saturday.<br \/>\nWhen Microsoft pulls XP\u2019s plug, it will have maintained the operating system for 12 years and five months, or about two-and-a-half years longer than its usual practice. That\u2019s also a record, replacing the previous Methuselah, Windows NT, which received 11 years and 5 months of support.<br \/>\nXP\u2019s long life was caused in large part by the debacle that was Windows Vista, an oft-delayed operating system that was ultimately rejected by most XP users for being buggy, sluggish or lacking in driver support. Instead, those customers waited for the next iteration, Windows 7, which has been as much a success as Vista was a failure.<br \/>\nAccording to Web metrics company Net Applications, Windows XP powered 40.7 percent of the world\u2019s desktop and notebook personal computers that went online last month. Windows 7, which passed its ancestor only in August, held a usage share of 44.7 percent in October.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Windows Vista, which peaked at 19.1 percent in October 2009, the same month Windows 7 debuted, now accounts for just 5.8 percent of all systems.<br \/>\nMicrosoft has remained adamant that XP will exit support in April 2014, and has urged customers to upgrade as soon as possible. But countdown clocks notwithstanding, analysts have predicted that XP will be used by millions well after that deadline.<br \/>\nLast month, for instance, Gartner analyst Michael Silver said \u201cthere\u2019s a good chance\u201d that between 10 percent and 15 percent of enterprise PCs will be running XP after April 2014.<br \/>\nComputerworld\u2019s forecasts have been overly optimistic about XP\u2019s decline. In mid-2011, Computerworld predicted that Windows XP would account for 38 percent in the third quarter of 2012, three percentage points lower than the eventual number.<br \/>\nCurrent estimates based on Net Applications\u2019 data indicate that come April 2014, Windows XP will be running between 27 percent and 29 percent of the world\u2019s computers.<br \/>\n\u201cThe end of XP support is a potential time bomb,\u201d Camwood said last week. \u201cAnd the clock is ticking.\u201d<br \/>\nWindows XP users who want to create a countdown clock on their desktops can install one of several free utilities\u2014including TimeLeft from Canadian developer NesterSoft\u2014then set the countdown target at 10 a.m. PT on April 8, 2014. (Microsoft shoots for a 10 a.m. PT release for each month\u2019s security updates.)<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2016920\/windows-xp-countdown-clock-ticks-under-500-days.html\">Windows XP countdown clock ticks under 500 days | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows XP has fewer than 500 days left to live, according to Microsoft and third-party countdown clocks. 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