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XP ANTI-VIRUS SUPPORT EXTENDED Featured

MicrosoftUsers of the Windows XP operating system get more than a year of additional anti-malware support. However, that does not change Microsoft's decision to make XP a non-supported operating system on April 8. Let's assume most accounting software VARs have moved beyond XP. Still, there are a lot of small businesses that have not.  There are estimates that 20 percent to 30 percent of PC desktops worldwide run XP.

In a post this week on its Antimalware Support Center Blog, the company said Microsoft will continue "to provide updates to our antimalware signatures and engine for Windows XP users through July 14, 2015." XP still will cease to be supported, meaning users do not receive new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options, or online technical content updates from Microsoft. For enterprise customers, the continuation of anti-malware supports applies to System Center Endpoint Protection, Forefront Client Security, Forefront Endpoint Protection and Windows Intune running on Windows XP. For consumers, it applies to Microsoft Security Essentials.

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