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Windows Vista support ends on April 11

2017-03-14 13:10 by
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Windows users, who are running Vista should consider updating their operating system, because Microsoft has announced that it will finally drop support for Vista on April 11th.

That means no more security updates – or indeed patches of any kind for whatever problems may crop up with the OS – and no more technical support from Microsoft. Windows Vista has reached the end of its main support on April 10, 2012.

Approximately 1% of Desktop users are still using Windows Vista, considered to be one of Microsoft's least desirable consumer Desktop operating systems.

"Microsoft has provided support for Windows Vista for the past 10 years, but the time has come for us, along with our hardware and software partners, to invest our resources towards more recent technologies so that we can continue to deliver great new experiences," reads a Microsoft page about the end of Vista support.

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