Microsoft End of Support for Win 2000 and XP SP2

[bill bolton]

· Both Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2000 are approaching 10 years since their launch and both products will go out of Extended Support on July 13 2010.

· Windows XP was launched back in 2001. While Extended Support for the latest Windows XP Service Pack 3 continues until 2014, Service pack 2 will go out of support on July 13 2010. From that date onwards, Microsoft will no longer support or provide free security updates for Windows XP SP2 .

Cheers,

Bill B.

[A31]

I think I am right in saying if you have XP Pro x64 Edition or Server 2003 with SP2, you'll still get support until April 2014 because Microsoft hasn't released an SP3 for either of these systems?

[jdrou]

XP x64 was released April 2005 so I'd expect security fixes to continue to 2015 since it is only available as a 'Professional' edition and MS claims to offer 10 years of support for business products. Most of the references I've found say 2014 though. I've also seen an article indicating that MS will continue to offer 'downgrade rights' to XP until 2020 which would be very strange if they no longer provide security updates.

[craigmontHunter]

I've also seen an article indicating that MS will continue to offer 'downgrade rights' to XP until 2020 which would be very strange if they no longer provide security updates.

This is only for businesses, and volume license/parteners, who have downgrade rights to anything (you could load windows 3.11 for work groups on a t410 if you wanted) - it is for compatibility with other hardware more than software, and microsoft is not going to stop the companies from using what they need.