It’s been two years since Microsoft
ended support for Windows XP, the popular operating system that’s been around since 2001 and which many people just
don’t seem willing to let go.
Microsoft did about all it could to drag XP-ers into the present with
pop-up warnings urging them that they need to upgrade, and a
free migration tool to help people transfer their files and settings to Windows 7 or Windows 8.
It’s not merely that Microsoft wants to get everybody onto the latest version of Windows, although it has certainly gone to great lengths recently to get people to
upgrade to Windows 10, whether they want to or not.
But as we at Naked Security repeatedly warned XP users, the end of support means “
zero-days forever,” because those vulnerabilities will never be patched – and XP computers are sitting ducks for cybercriminals to attack.
