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One thing that slipped under the radar in the brouhaha leading up to the release of Windows Vista is that Microsoft made an announcement this week committing itself to extend support for all flavours of Windows XP.
It seems almost every time Microsoft releases a new operating system, some people with unfiltered brains try to start a rumour that the Evil Empire will soon kill off its current product just to be nasty and force you to upgrade.
This week, Microsoft announced that Windows XP Media Centre and Windows XP Home Edition will get the same support as Microsoft gives Windows XP Professional.
“With the addition of Extended Support,” Microsoft said Wednesday, “the support life cycle for Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Media Centre Edition will include a total of five years of Mainstream Support (until April 2009) and five years of Extended Support.”
Consumers, then, will get support until April, 2011, and business users will be able to hold out until at least 2014.
So you needn’t feel rushed into upgrading to Vista. You’ll be getting XP security updates for seven more years before Microsoft pulls the plug. By which time you yourself will probably also have pulled the plug on XP.
Besides, Microsoft has also announced it would release a third service pack for Windows XP; originally, XP SP3 was to have been released later this year, but has been delayed to 2008.
And if it’s at all like XP SP2, it might also be more like a whole new version of XP than just a service pack.
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Gary Layng from Canada writes: They'll be releasing XP SP3 on Tuesday - they're just calling it Vista.
My company, for one, will not want to upgrade their hardware and software anytime soon. The cost is just prohibitive.- Posted 26/01/07 at 4:29 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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