The IT Nerd

It’s in Microsoft’s best interests to move as many people off of Windows XP as quickly as possible before support ends in just under a month. This blog entry from Microsoft has a couple of ways that they are going to do that using the carrot and stick approach:

The carrot: Microsoft will soon let XP users download a free copy of Laplink’s PCmover Express to migrate their data to newer Windows releases. That way they can move their data easily. The Laplink software is aimed at home users. Corporate users should us the User State Migration Tool instead (and that’s free too).

The stick: Microsoft is using Windows Update to send an end-of-support notification to most XP users. So the next time they update their soon to be retired OS, they’ll get the hint that they need to move.

Now Microsoft can’t force you to move to Windows 7 or Windows 8, but this approach will at least make you think about doing so.

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