8, 2014, Windows XP, Office 2003, and several other Microsoft enterprise software products still deployed by many organizations leave Extended support. This means that as of this date, Microsoft will no longer fix any problems found in these products, including security vulnerabilities. The riskiest of these products to continue to run without support is Windows XP.

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Therefore, customers who have not yet migrated away from Windows XP need to either have custom support contracts in place or take immediate steps to mitigate the risk of running these products past the end of Extended support. Migration Away from Windows XP Recommended The easiest way to remediate the risk posed by Windows XP is to migrate away from the OS, but for many, that will not be an option for some time. Migration away from Windows XP should re-emphasize to organizations that software, even if perpetually licensed, is not perpetually supported. All software has an expiration date. Customers should clearly understand that Microsoft will no longer be providing security updates for newly discovered vulnerabilities in Windows XP. This includes all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) running on XP, which Microsoft considers to be an integral part of the Windows OS, including IE6, IE7, and IE8.

Windows XP and available versions of IE continued to receive security hotfixes over the last year of Extended support, indicating that there are likely vulnerabilities yet to be discovered. Therefore, organizations choosing to continue to use Windows XP in production should assume there will be future exploits of the OS and its integrated browser, which could leave systems running Windows XP at significantly higher risk for exploitation than systems running current versions of Windows and IE. Windows XP Embedded, like Windows Server 2003, has a longer time frame before Extended support concludes, since this version of the OS is typically embedded in devices and supported in conjunction with the manufacturer or OEM that embedded the OS in the device. Www.weebly.com Games Tekken 7. Such companies would not use Windows as an embeddable OS without the longer support time-frame. (For a timeline of major products with Extended support ending during 2014 and 2015, see the chart '.) Customers who have not completed their migration away from Windows XP should have a custom support contract with Microsoft in place to receive OS security updates, although a custom support agreement likely provides no guarantee that all vulnerabilities will be addressed. Organizations should examine the roles of remaining Windows XP systems in their infrastructure and, if possible, consider how best to retire them in favor of a version of Windows that is eligible for Microsoft support at an appropriate level to satisfy the risk.

Some currently supported versions of Windows are close to the end of Mainstream support, so organizations need to ensure they don't merely exchange one version of Windows at the end of Extended support for another already in Extended support or nearing the end of Mainstream support and thus find themselves in the same position in a few years. Many organizations have Windows XP systems in place that are running applications that are difficult to move to more recent versions of Windows, due to software compatibility or business compliance requirements, the lack of a suitable replacement, or budgetary limitations. For example, an organization may not have a suitable migration path for the following applications running on Windows XP: • Dental/medical practice management software • ATM or point-of-service software • Manufacturing system software • Custom line-of-business software. Depending on the size of their budget and the ISV that sold the application, organizations may have some degree of success pressuring the ISV to update their software to support a newer version of Windows or assist them in migrating to a secure platform. If an organization has software that requires Windows XP in order to run and cannot find, or will not pay for, a suitable replacement application, it may need to run Windows XP well past the date when Extended support ends.