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The countdown to the end of support for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system is stirring up security concerns for users of the 12-year-old PC software. But at least it’s nowhere near the levels of Y2K hysteria when there was talk of elevators plummeting and planes falling from the sky when the year moved from 1999 to 2000. Microsoft has a countdown clock on its website alerting enterprise customers its support for XP ends on April 8. After that date, Microsoft will issue no more security updates or provide technical support for the Windows XP operating system. Usually countdown clocks are for something positive — the arrival of a new year, a space launch or the availability of a new product. But Microsoft’s clock is more about the marketing strategy of “fear, uncertainty and doubt,” or FUD for short. Its countdown clock is like those in the movies for the detonation of… Scalper1 News
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