Dead OS Walking! Microsoft Reaffirms Plans to Kill Off XP
Dead OS Walking! Microsoft Reaffirms Plans to Kill Off XP
Posted 06/25/2008 at 8:29am
| by Paul Lilly
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Put your virtual pencils down, you can stop signing the Save XP petition now. In an open letter to Windows customers this week, Bill Veghte, Microsoft's senior VP, squelched any hopes the software maker would grant the soon-to-be retired OS another reprieve. But while Microsoft will officially pull the plug on XP at the end of the month, it will still provide security patches "and other critical updates" all the way up until April, 2014, nearly 13 years after XP first debuted. Veghte also reiterated that XP will continue to be sold on low-end PCs, as well as offered as a downgrade option when buying Vista Business or Ultimate. And as for Windows 7? Look for the new OS sometime around January, 2010.
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Larzs13
July 06, 2008 at 7:32pm
Never shall I give the light of day to Vesta until there are no more bugs on it.Beside the fact i have a few old games i still get out of the closet to play such as the mother of all Rpgs Diablo plus a ton of other games from that era.
mikeart03a
June 25, 2008 at 12:17pm
Before you go knocking a venerable OS, I think you should make sure that Vista absolutely works with all the stuff you have. My little brother thought that Vista was far superior to XP before he found out that his electronic circuit design apps wouldn't work on it, even in compatibility mode.
- mike_art03a
IT Technician Gov't of Canada
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