Windows XP countdown clock ticks under 500 days

Windows XP has fewer than 500 days left to live, according to Microsoft and third-party countdown clocks.

The 11-year-old operating system will exit support April 8, 2014, when Microsoft serves users with their final security updates.

On Saturday, the retirement countdown clocks offered by Microsoft and others flipped from 500 to 499 days, or a shade under 17 months.

Microsoft provides a countdown gadget for Windows XP?s support demise. Ironically, the gadget runs only on Windows 7, the 2009 OS that most customers have adopted after departing XP.

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Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233996/Windows_XP_countdown_clock_ticks_under_500_days

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