After 12 years, support for Windows XP will end on April 8, 2014. There will be no more security updates or Microsoft provided technical support for the Windows XP operating system. It is very important that customers and partners migrate to a modern operating system such as Windows 7 or 8.1.
Official Mainstream Support for Windows XP ended on April 14, 2009, and Official Extended support for Windows XP ended on April 8, 2014, after which the operating system ceased receiving further support or security updates. Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, based on Windows XP Professional, received security updates until April 2019.
When did Windows XP stop being supported?
Support for the original release of Windows XP (without a service pack) ended on August 30, 2005. Both Windows XP Service Pack 1 and 1a were retired on October 10, 2006, and both Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 reached their end of support on July 13, 2010, about 24 months after the launch of Windows XP Service Pack 3.
Yet another question we ran across in our research was “How long will Microsoft support Windows XP?”.
Microsoft provided support for Windows XP for the past 12 years. But the time came for us, along with our hardware and software partners, to invest our resources toward supporting more recent technologies so that we can continue to deliver great new experiences.
What is the end of life of Windows XP?
Support ends 24 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product’s support lifecycle, whichever comes first.
If you continue to use Windows XP now that support has ended, your computer will still work but it might become more vulnerable to security risks and viruses.
Is Windows XP gaming still supported?
Extended support for Windows XP ended on April 8, 2014, after which the operating system ceased receiving further support or security updates (with exceptional security updates being made e. g. in 2019, to address potential ransomware threats) to most users. By August 2019, Microsoft (and others) had ended support for games on Windows XP.