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how long are microsoft going to keep updating XP for?
tc1992
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i vaguely remember reading a date that they would stop updates. any ideas?
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> any ideas?
well if I wanted to know I'd use that search engine thingummyjig - goofle or goggle or something like that anyway. I've heard it's very good.0 -
The free support for Windows XP has already been phased out, it's currently in the 'extended support' phase which will end 08/04/2014. Maybe they were the dates you were looking at?
Whether or not this means they will stop producing security updates for XP, I'm not sure, but you should still be able to download previously released updates after the extended support has ran out.0 -
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3221
Currently 8th April 2014 (but you need to always be at the latest service pack (SP1 went out in 2006 and SP2 will be unsupported early next year)
....that is unless industry/big companies etc bully microsoft into extending its life
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2011 old man. 2015 for Server 2003.i vaguely remember reading a date that they would stop updates. any ideas?Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.0 -
kwikbreaks wrote: »> any ideas?
well if I wanted to know I'd use that search engine thingummyjig - goofle or goggle or something like that anyway. I've heard it's very good.
perhaps here?
:rotfl::D sorry OP, couldn't resist 0 -
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ok, thanks. so that's a while. so will new service packs keep coming up every couple of years or so?0
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ok, thanks. so that's a while. so will new service packs keep coming up every couple of years or so?
I doubt it as it's now 2 versions old behind Win 7 and Vista. If there is a massive draw from business to release a SP-4 they might, but no one knows.
But they will keep the security patches up until the dates mentioned earlier, and having a fully patched system is essential if you are working on-line.0 -
The interesting question is how soon Microsoft will try to bury the whole Vista disaster in the hope that people will forget it ever existed.
http://www.c2000.com/gifs/billgates.jpg
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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The interesting question is how soon Microsoft will try to bury the whole Vista disaster in the hope that people will forget it ever existed.
http://www.c2000.com/gifs/billgates.jpg
They managed with Windows METhis is an open forum, anyone can post and I just did !0
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