Microsoft Releases Windows XP End-of-Support Countdown Gadget

[Rob Williams]

In March, Microsoft launched a campaign that would see the end of Internet Explorer 6 usage, and as we can now see, the company has added yet another aging software product to its list: Windows XP. To help countdown the official end-of-support date for XP, or encourage its desmise, Microsoft has launched a sidebar gadget for Vista and 7 that simply counts down the days to when XP's support is pulled.

Read the rest of our post and then discuss it here!

 

[Optix]

Wouldn't it make more sense to put this on XP systems?

 

[Rob Williams]

Wouldn't it make more sense to put this on XP systems?

XP machines don't support those Aero gadgets.

And as sad as it is, this is one of the more useful gadgets I've seen :-|

 

[Optix]

Point missed.

I love Windows 7. Oh look. A gadget that tells me when Windows XP will no longer be supported and I should upgrade to Windows 7.

Redundancy!