Windows XP Mainstream Support Ends April 14, 2009
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversOn April 14, 2009, Microsoft plans to cut off mainstream support for Windows XP and Office 2003. As a consequence, both products will move in the Extended support phase, which will last for the next five years.
The Redmond company is of course using the opportunity in order to stress the importance of upgrades to the latest releases for its main cash cows. Still, the end of mainstream support is not synonymous with completely severing the lifeline of Office 2003 and Windows XP. In fact, both products will continue to be supported until 2014, although the updates provided to customers running the two products will be less diversified.
“Microsoft’s standard support policies dictate that mainstream support will provide free fixes for security and bugs for the life of the product. Mainstream support usually lasts 5 years after which the product would enter a period known as ‘extended support’,” revealed Viral Tarpara, Microsoft IT Pro evangelist. “’Extended Support’ is only provided to customers who have signed support contracts with Microsoft. While Microsoft will continue to provide security fixes for a product for free, any bug fixes or non-security hot fixes will require extended support contracts.”
The following Windows XP SKUs are affected by the mainstream support cut-off: Home Editions, Media Center Edition, XP Professional (both 32-bit and 64-bit), as well as the Tablet PC Edition. Essentially, Microsoft will offer free security updates for Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) until 2014. Office 2003 SKUs affected are: Basic Edition, Professional Edition, Small Business Edition, Standard Edition, Student and Teacher Edition. Extended support for both XP and Office 2003 ends 08/04/2014.
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Comments(4)
"on april 14, 2009, microsoft plans to cut off mainstream support for windows xp
and office 2003."
... make sure that you actually try to make it sensible you goddamn illiterate. geez
luise, i really hate that mk guy, look like an abused 10 year old who was hit to the head
multiple times (and then raped).
if they would just make something that works before moving onto their next "big" idea
(otherwise know as, how to use far more resources than is technologically possible) they
might have more "happy customers"
i generally only adopt a new os when a good
candidate is out, and support has ended for the one im on (i only moved on to xp 2 years
ago, as a game i had required it) its a shame with the timing, as i have no inclination to
move onto vista (while dx10 seems nice, the thought that the os requires twice the
resources that xp did makes me angry, for the "borrowed" ideas that have been
implemented)
not seen anything of windows 7 yet, hope its not the resource
hungry shambles that vista was when it was released, otherwise i dont know what i'll do
for an operating system
i agree. it's also a shame that games no longer come of floppy discs, that processors
have more than one core, and you need more than 128mb ram to run a program. it stinx that
ms has forced hd video,and sound upon us. i say we all picket microsoft until they bring
back win 98!!! that'll really show them. who the hell needs progress? i happen to like
vhs tapes,vynal records and girls with big bushes.
lol
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By D2D on 15.04.2009 - 08:04