But today, XP’s Luna looks dated compared to the sleek, modern interfaces found on all the newer, major computing platforms. The numerous vulnerabilities in the OS have forced Microsoft to spend significant effort in issuing regular security patches, and wish for its users to move on to relatively secure Windows 7 or 8.Īt launch in 2001, XP featured a striking default theme called “Luna”, which has been sometimes unkindly compared to the look of a Fischer-Price toy. The years have also not been kind to Windows XP. Chinese web giant Tencent has taken on the responsibility of ensuring security updates for XP users in that country. Recently, the UK Government was forced to enter into a £5.5 million deal with Microsoft to extend security support for Windows XP installations in the Crown offices for another year. This deadline has caused some panic among the current users of the operating system.
This facility comes to an end on April 8, 2014. Since 2009, Microsoft has provided only security updates for Windows XP. Microsoft released three “Service Packs” to upgrade Windows XP and to fix the many security vulnerabilities that were discovered in the course of its usage.
