When Microsoft ends support for Windows XP on Tuesday, a security sinkhole will likely open and gradually widen, threatening hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide in homes, companies, government agencies and schools.



From Computerworld:

When Microsoft ends support for Windows XP on Tuesday, a security sinkhole will likely open and gradually widen, threatening hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide in homes, companies, government agencies and schools.

Along with the Y2K bug, Windows XP's support termination is one of the computer industry's most publicized -- and most ignored -- deadlines, toward which many business and IT managers have taken a curiously casual attitude.

  Windows XP: The end is nigh