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Microsoft has told customers that it's time to stop using Windows XP, reminding people on its official blog that there is less than 1,000 days of support left for the ageing OS.

Keep your machine secure on Safer Internet Day

Windows Vista on a netbook runs like a dog on ice, so we reasoned that our office Asus Eee 1000H ought to join in the Windows 7 fun.

While Steve Ballmer was giving his blockbusting Windows 7 keynote at CES, we grabbed an opportunity to catch up with John Curran, head Windows honcho at Microsoft UK.

For those looking forward to the funky new name for the forthcoming Windows 7 operating system, the wait is over – and Microsoft has called its replacement for Vista 'Windows 7'.

Windows XP will not be sold by Microsoft from today - although there are a number of loopholes that means the chirpy little operating system will remain a key product.

Microsoft has told its customers that it will be supporting Windows XP until 2014 – a much longer period than it normally supplies.

Rounding up what just happened so you don't have to

Microsoft has announced that it will officially extend Windows XP for nettops – ultralow-cost desktop PCs such as Asus’ forthcoming EBox.