The default background for Microsoft's MSFT -0.56% Windows XP operating system—a perfect blue sky full of cotton-candy clouds above rolling hills with impeccably trimmed grass and daffodils—is the spring day we wish could last forever.
And fittingly, many people wish the operating system would last just as long. Introduced in 2001, Windows XP became so successful that Microsoft extended its support for an industry record of 12 years. Yet come April 8, XP's sunny day is over.
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