Microsoft Windows XP is 10 years old today

Windows XP Launch

Ten years ago Microsoft launched and started selling Windows XP operating system. Windows XP remains the most used operating system today even though we have Vista, Windows 7, Apple and a number of Linux distributions.

According to a study released back in March 2011 by analyst firm Forrester Research almost 60 per cent of systems worldwide run Windows XP operating system. Good news for XP users is that Microsoft will support it until 2014.

Being the most used operating system also means that XP is the primary target for malware developers and new security holes are being discovered on a daily basis.

We should also mention that Windows 95 was released 16 years ago today.

Maybe it's time to update your system to Windows 7? Or if you are tech savvy and not scared of change why not try Ubuntu or some other Linux flavour.