It may not sound like a lot of time, but 1,000 days is still the better part of three years. Even so, Microsoft is putting a hard time limit on how much longer they plan to support Windows XP, and even though they’re already counting the days, each new milestone is another opportunity to tell people to stop using Windows XP.
Microsoft said that Monday was the 1,000th day in the countdown to the end for Windows XP, and that afterward they don’t plan on offering any type of support for their once-flagship operating system. Microsoft still thinks there are entirely too many people using Windows XP, and they’re making a point of telling them all to upgrade to Windows 7.
If Microsoft keeps to its word, and the countdown clock runs out without any extensions, Windows XP will go end-of-life in early 2014, after which users who are still running the OS will not receive any further security updates and patches from Microsoft.
