Microsoft wants you to move away from XP after 10 years in the wild. Reason why, follow the money trail.
Internet Explorer 9 will not run on XP. Microsoft “Download Center” even offers a little WinXP "End of Support Countdown Gadget", ticking off the days until XP's official support ends in 2014. I downloaded it, just to see. Today it shows 893 days left.
Win7 seems on track to take XP’s place as the most-used OS, but that takes years. The numbers are fuzzy, different analytics sites come up with divergent numbers. The Net Applications site shows, XP still holds 47.29% of the market, with Win7 next with 30.36%, but stats given by StatCounter, show Win7 going up, having 40.39% and XP as #2 with 38.54%. Read More – Click Here!