Older versions of Microsoft’s ‘Windows XP’ operating system are coming to the end of their supported lifecycle for businesses.
Those companies using the Windows XP operating system need to upgrade to Service Pack 3 (SP3) in the near future (July 2010) so as to continue receiving ongoing official Microsoft support.
Windows XP has had it’s support phase extended due to popularity – official XP support will now continue until April 2014. But, to receive this support, users need to have migrated to the newer service packs. Windows XP SP2 support ends on 13th July 2010 (with SP1 support already removed back in October of 2006.)
All XP users should install Service Pack 3 via the Microsoft Online ‘Windows Update’ service. If you haven’t moved to SP2 yet, then you’ll need to install this before SP3.
