Microsoft Officially 'Kill' Windows 8

Starting on January 13, 2016, Microsoft has finally officially 'kill' Windows 8 to stop supporting its safety devices. If you do not want your device to your computer is threatened, there is no other choice but to upgrade the OS.

From now on, Microsoft will never again release an update contains security patches for Windows 8. This means that each crevice new vulnerabilities or bugs that arise can be a weapon hackers to hack computers that run Windows 8.

For security, Windows 8 users are strongly advised to immediately install the Windows 8.1 version of 'Update', instead of the usual Windows 8.1. Because the same as Windows 8.0, Windows 8.1 also no longer receive updates from Microsoft support.

Until now, Windows 8.0 was used by 2.76 percent of computers worldwide, or 41 million users. This amount is equal to OS X users 'El Capitan' Apple Mac.

Unfortunately, as in the case of Windows XP, many users are no longer heed the termination of support for OS Windows 8 from Microsoft. Despite not receive security patches since April 8, 2014, one of the 10 computers in the world are still using Windows XP.

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