Windows XP, doomed in 2011.....

Even though Windows Vista, Windows 7 came after Windows XP, still there are considerable number of people who are using Windows XP. The main reason why people does not leave Windows XP is that they can run new things on their old computers with Windows XP. That is because Windows XP is a suitable operating system for nowadays even. But now there are reasons to change this situation. The reason is that the present Hard Disk technology is going to be changed very soon by the manufacturers.

The IDEMA (International Disk drive Equipment and Materials Association) has already decided to introduce a new hard disk technology replacing the present technology in 2011. But Windows XP cannot run in hard disks which has the new hard disk technology.

From the time of DOS operating system, the hard disks had a 512 bytes format block. Floppy disks had the same too. In 512 bytes standard, the start and end of the format was stated. There is a small gap between those two. When we take together all these gaps in a bigger hard disk, it is a huge unusable space. To avoid this and store more data in a small hard disk, the new technology called '4K format' has been introduced.

Today's data exchanging is not in hundreds of bytes but in millions of bytes. That means hard disk must be measured in Tera Byte which is equal to 1024 Giga Bytes. For this, the decision of changing the hard disk technology was first came in 2009. So the operating systems of Windows, Linux and Apple were all compatible with 4K format.

From 2011 January, all the hard disks that come to the market will have the 4K format. If that type of hard disk is installed in to an old computer, with a suitable capacity for that computer, and if Windows XP is installed on that hard disk, it will reduce the speed of the operating system from 10%. Sometimes you will not be able to install that operating system even. All this will lead to an omission of Windows XP.