Microsoft s announcement this week that it is preparing to end support for machines running Windows XP SP2 is the end of an era for both Microsoft and its customers. The OS was released in August 2001 as a replacement for Windows 2000 and was the last full release of Windows before Microsoft started its Trustworthy Computing effort. The company will still support SP3 for Windows XP, but that doesn t make it any less problematic for organizations that have plenty of XP machines happily humming along.
Source: https://threatpost.com/end-support-xp-sp2-end-era-051310/73965/