Microsoft has decided to stop giving all kinds of support for Windows XP, April 8, 2014 onwards.  They are started giving message to the XP users for switching to Windows 7 or 8 as soon as possible. They are showing causes for shifting to newer edition operating systems. As their developers are stop working on Windows XP, its security became very unstable.

Malware’s are the most common threat in today’s web world, so the chances are increased for Windows XP to get affected by them than newer versions of Microsoft windows.  The report shows that the rate of incident decreased with machines using 32 or 64-bit Windows 7 or Windows 8.

So as per Microsoft the solution is moving to newer versions of Windows as early as you can. Microsoft will provide full support for Windows 7 till January 2015 and after that they will provide only basic updates. They also provide an option for subscription which allows you to get support for Windows 7 till January 2020.