Techworld: Officially, Microsoft casts off Windows XP next week. In all probability it will have to continue patching it whether it whether it likes this prospect or not.
You have to hand it to Windows XP, an operating system that seems immune to age, software fashion, obsolescence and security infirmity. Microsoft’s planners wanted to be done with it long ago but here they are in 2014, stuck in the middle of the slowest software migration in history.