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After April 8, 2014, Windows XP SP3 users will no longer receive new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates.  This means that any new vulnerabilities discovered in Windows XP after its end of life will not be addressed by new security updates by Microsoft.  Moving forward, this will likely make it easier for attackers to successfully compromise Windows XP-based systems using exploits for unpatched vulnerabilities. In this scenario, antimalware software and other security mitigations are severely disadvantaged and over time and will become increasingly unable to protect the Windows XP platform.

We can get insight into what happens to malware infection rates once a platform goes out of support by looking at Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) as an example.  Support for Windows XP SP2 ended on July 13, 2010.  Although this platform benefited from numerous security enhancements when it was released, today it has a much higher malware infection rate than Windows XP SP3 or any of the newer Windows operating systems.  As the figure below illustrates, computers running Windows XP routinely experience a significantly higher malware infection rate than computers running any other supported version of Windows. Much of the elevated infection rate on Windows XP can be attributed to the fact that some of the key built-in security features included with more recent versions of Windows are not present in Windows XP.  Windows XP, designed in a different era, simply can’t mitigate threats as effectively as newer operating systems, like Windows 7 and Windows 8.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP

Downgrade Support to Windows XP Professional Available Until End of Windows 7 Lifecycle

Windows 7 Support Status

Mainstream Support until January 13, 2015. Extended support until January 14, 2020.




 

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