Windows XP users, (sigh), you reading this? Don’t you think it’s about time you must leave the sinking boat and upgrade to a bigger, nicer boat – Windows 7? Well, sooner or later you’ll have to because Microsoft is really have no pity left for XP users now.

First it was the official end-of-support for XP as per the product life cycle, followed by lesser and lesser automatic updates, then Microsoft announced that IE9 won’t support XP and now even Windows Live Wave 4 won’t have support for XP. We have speculated this last month when LiveSino reported that the system requirements of Live Wave 4 does not include XP.

While discussing the Windows Live Wave 4 on Windows Team Blog, the Corporate VP (Windows Live) Chris Jones mentioned in a comment,

Windows XP is nearly 10 years old and simply doesn’t provide the same level of platform support for graphics, and we recognized early in our work on Wave 4 that we could do much more in our software on a modern graphics platform.  As a result our new version of Essentials will require the new graphics platform and controls that are only available on Windows 7 or Windows Vista and therefore will only run on these platforms.

Even after reigning for 10 years, Windows XP’s market share hovered around 64% by March 2010 and so it’s really apparent that Microsoft takes some stringent actions to bring it down.