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Originally Posted by Lola Bunny
Not only will users of Windows XP receive no more security patches after April 8, but their installations of Microsoft Security Essentials will get no more virus updates, leaving their machines doubly unprotected.
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No different than what happened with NT and Win 2000. For example, when Win 2000 support ended, Norton also stopped adapting antivirus programs for Win 2000. If someone used the next Norton on Win 2000, Norton actually damaged that OS. Back then, McAfee malware protection still supported Win 2000 some years after Microsoft support ended.
Microsoft's Malicious Software removal tool ended for Win 2000 with something like version 4.19. Eventually Microsoft will end same for Windows XP probably around version 5.20. Get and store last updates for Security Essentials, Windows Defender, and Malicious Software removal so that protection from most malware remains. Also locate full versions of programs such as IE. Since IE installation programs that must download most of that software from MSFT will also stop working.
If your hardware is XP vintage, then it makes little sense to only upgrade the OS. Since later OSes require hardware that was not available with vintage XP hardware.
I only recently retired my last Windows NT system. Older software remains sufficient for most functions including data backup.
Windows 8 is better that Windows 7 except for its Balmer interface. Most only see the interface and not the improvements that permit hardware to execute faster. Only someone like Balmer would have approved that human interface.