[gnu8]

Why bother doing any research when you can just claim the sky is falling and spam your blog on HN?

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/51c...

[comex]

That thread does not actually conclusively answer the question.

[frozenport]

"The end of Windows XP support will not affect activation, but rather security updates and phone/online technical support." has been said many times for the last few years. I agree that this is a low quality blog post.

[comex]

It may have been said many times, but the linked thread itself does not contain any official statements and is not particularly conclusive.