Infoworld – With three months to go until April 8 and the end of support for Windows XP, Microsoft has dropped another nasty surprise. Although it isn’t clear when the decision was made, the official end-of-support Web page now states, “Microsoft will also stop providing Microsoft Security Essentials for download on Windows XP on this date.”
We’ve all been anticipating, with no small amount of dread, Microsoft’s threat to stop updating MSE malware definitions for Windows XP on April 8. This new revelation takes the sting to a new level of hurt: Microsoft is pulling the rug out from under XP’s MSE entirely.