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WindowsNews July 11, 2026 3 min read

Windows XP's End of Support Left 30% of Internet-Connected PCs Exposed

Why Microsoft's April 8, 2014 cutoff for Windows XP updates became one of the most consequential end-of-life dates in the operating system's history, given exactly how many machines were still running it.

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WindowsNews July 11, 2026 2 min read

Windows XP Unifies the Consumer and Business Windows Lines

Released to retail October 25, 2001, Windows XP was the first consumer edition of Windows built on the NT kernel rather than the MS-DOS-based 9x line — ending the split between Windows 9x/Me and Windows NT/2000 for good.

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