{"id":1310,"date":"2012-04-20T07:47:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2012-08-01T07:33:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T14:33:44","slug":"microsoft-to-end-support-for-windows-xp-in-april-2014-start-thinking-about-updating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/microsoft-to-end-support-for-windows-xp-in-april-2014-start-thinking-about-updating\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to end support for Windows XP in April 2014 &#8211; start thinking about updating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will <a title=\"Windows lifecycle fact sheet\" href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/products\/lifecycle\" target=\"_blank\">end support of Windows XP in April 2014<\/a>, meaning that they will no longer be providing security and reliability updates as they do now on a monthly basis. In less than 2 years any computers that still have Windows XP computers will become highly vulnerable to getting viruses and malware. New software and hardware will increasingly not work with Windows XP.<\/p>\n<p>If you still have a computer with Windows XP it&#8217;s time to start thinking about updating to a new computer with a modern version of Windows (currently Windows 7) before April 2014. The good news is that new computer hardware these days will likely cost much less than your old computer. Middle-of-the-road computers for everyday computing average less than $500 on sale.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 can sometimes be installed on an old computer that currently runs Windows XP. However, old hardware on a computer that is over 5 years old is more likely to fail and cost more in the long term versus updating to a new computer and operating system together.<\/p>\n<p>Computer Techs can help you make the transition from Windows XP. If you&#8217;re looking for advice and deals on new computers, check out our New Computer Deals newsletters located at the bottom half of our <a title=\"Newsletter Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/CTreno.com\/archive\" target=\"_blank\">Newsletter Archives web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will end support of Windows XP in April 2014, meaning that they will no longer be providing security and reliability updates as they do now on a monthly basis. In less than 2 years any computers that still have Windows XP computers will become highly vulnerable to getting viruses and malware. New software and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}