Gartner: Time to eliminate Windows XP

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Most organizations should start drawing up plans to eliminate Windows XP and shift workers to Windows 7, Gartner is advising.rnAbout 80% of Gartner clients skipped Windows Vista, and are relying mainly on the aging XP, the research firm says.rnWindows 8 is "nowhere in sight," so "most organizations should be planning and testing Windows 7 this year," Gartner says.rnMicrosoft has pledged to support XP until April 2014, seemingly giving businesses a long lead time to migrate to a newer operating system. However, by 2012 the new versions of many applications will not support XP, and various independent software vendors will start eliminating XP support, Gartner says.