Windows XP support extended till 2014

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Windows XP support extended till 2014

#1 Post by gator » Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:13 am

http://www.trustedreviews.com/software/ ... il-2014/p1
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#2 Post by AdaSch » Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:54 am

YES! :banana: :beer:
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now W500, W700, X301, X120e,T43p
before T23, T40, T43p*2, T61p*3 (I hate Nvidia),
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#3 Post by andyP » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:17 pm

I'll ditto that :Nice:
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#4 Post by beGi » Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:33 pm

Yes, it's good news, but 2014 we'll be running 4 or even 8 cores and 64-bit OS by default, and XP will be just a nice memory, but until then… And I wouldn't be surprised that in 2014 Vista SP4 becomes what XP is now, if Windows7 fails like Vista did… M$ almost always failed with pre-SP OS…
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#5 Post by ashleys » Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:37 am

That article states,
In an unprecedented move, the Redmond giant has had to suck it up and pledge assistance until 2014


which is journalistic exaggeration.

Microsoft Life Cycle policy has been (since at least 2002) that product support will continue for 2 years after its replacement goes GA. It will then enter Extended Support, which may last up to 5 years.

Therefore, once Vista shipped in early 2007, it was always known/stated that normal support for XP would run until April 2009 and Extended Support until April 2014.

See here,
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3223
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