Tick, tick, tick, tick. That sound you hear is the clock winding down on the life of the Windows XP operating system. As of today, you have less than two years left until Microsoft will no longer support the OS. Two years may sound like a long time, but if you haven’t even begun to consider migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7, the pressure is on.

Your Windows XP systems will continue to work as they have for the past decade. But as of April 8, 2014, Microsoft will no longer support the operating system, or provide patches or security updates for it. So, from that point forward the OS will become increasingly unstable and insecure. Essentially, you’ll be on your own.