Windows XP - Gartner recommends corporate discontinuation by 2013

While Microsoft will continue to support WinXP until April 2014, large companies should start planning for this change.  Windows 7 is certainly a superior replacement option on new PCs.

Windows XP - Gartner recommends corporate discontinuation by 2013
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/gartner-plan-to-be-out-of-winxp-by-end.html

QUOTE: Well-known predictor of the future Gartner is advising enterprises to start installing and testing Windows 7 this year and try to finish replacement of Windows XP by the end of 2012. Microsoft will continue to support WinXP until April 2014, however, by the end of 2012 many newer applications written by independent vendors will not support XP, they said.

In various Gartner polls and surveys, 80 percent of respondents report skipping Windows Vista. With Windows XP getting older and Windows 8 nowhere in sight, organizations need to be planning their migrations to Windows 7. Windows 7 has been getting positive reviews, and many clients report that they have plans to start their production deployments ...