Microsoft ending support for Windows XP, should this be done?

Yes,

In2002 Microsoft introduced its Support Lifecycle policy based on customer feedback to have more transparency and predictability of support for Microsoft products. As per this policy, Microsoft Business and Developer products, including Windows and Office products, receive a minimum of10 years of support (5 years Mainstream Support and5 years Extended Support), at the supported service pack level.

Thus, Windows XP  and Office2003 will go out of support on April8,2014. If your organization has not started the migration to a modern desktop, you are late. Based on historical customer deployment data, the average enterprise deployment can take18 to32 months from business case through full deployment. To ensure you remain on supported versions of Windows and Office, you should begin your planning and application testing immediately to ensure you deploy before end of support.

Ofcourse it is needed to end support for XP. As you know Generic version of XP doesn't support more than4GB of RAM. My choice is Windows7 is as good as XP with more capabilities.

Hi, It is after all Microsoft's Lifecycle Policy , We cannot really comment on it, however as per my knowledge people are still using WIndows XP and they are happy with their Basic needs. 

Support for Windows XP is ending on April8,2014

follow the link below

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows/products/lifecycle

I don't believe Windows XP should end instead I feel that it should be redeployed with the same functionality built into Windows7 like a better memory manager as many home users "fear" change and if Microsoft realises that people are not susceptible to change, Microsoft can reap in the benefits of reviving an "old technology" much like Volkswagen have done with the Citi Golf :)

Give the consumer what they want as I have supported home users for many years and no matter how many times you tell them that the upgrade is better and that their data will be in tact...they almost always revert back to the Windows XP desktop look and feel and "I had an icon here for this and an icon there for that"...

At the Business / Corporate level I agree that Windows XP will not suffice as with newer applications these apps are memory hungry and require a better OS to run...

yes, but there support only XP SP3

Yes

Yes (it’s better for the user as well as for the organizations to upgrade to latest operating systems this way the users get to experience the new O/S and its features )

Try Linux (e. g ubuntu) Its Free and if you can bay windows you must do that xp was a good OS but the newer windows made by engineers to make life easier and thats a defcult very very deficalt for us to understand that if we didnt know just that the newer is stronger ( take a look to ubuntu its a maizing but dont try to judge it befor you know every thing a bout ubuntu or any linux a like OS) remmber there is some thing called Open source and thats open source are for all pepole to develope and use so linux for all windows developed by pepole counted by2 or4 or even6 hands at most (future for linux and be a ware that apple mak made there new operating system from linux and ithink windows developers must know that the end of mony take is comming)