Microsoft needs to build best of XP into next Windows version if it wants to see mass migration



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Earlier this week, the rumour mill went into overdrive over the release of Windows 9, tipped for April 2015 as a full-blown overhaul of the Microsoft operating system (OS).

But as some look ahead to what the next version of the Microsoft OS might bring, the Windows XP support battle continues to drag on, with no clear end in sight. In the blue corner, we have numerous organisations refusing to migrate to a newer version of Windows, and offering thinly veiled threats to Microsoft that when they are forced to move, it will be to a different OS completely, with Apple and Linux the likely winners. And in the red corner there’s Microsoft, continually moving the goalposts for when it will definitely cut off all support for its ailing operating system.

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