Microsoft has reportedly decided to use pop-ups telling Windows XP users to upgrade their operating systems, to preferably 'Windows 8.1.'
As the software maker is ending support of XP on April 8th, it has decided to start issuing warnings to machines running the 12-year-old operating system.
According to The Verge, the pop-up warnings would appear on March 8th following the monthly patch cycle of Windows update and the notification would include a link to Microsoft's Windows XP end of support site.
The pop-up would continue to show on the 8th of every month unless Windows XP users check the "don't show this message again" option.
The report said that the software maker would also release a free transfer tool later this week that's designed to migrate data from an old PC to a new device running Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1.
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