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Articles about windowsxp: December 4, 2008

Microsoft to offer Windows XP support till 2014

by Robert Nelson on Jun 26, 2008 at 08:07 PM

While Windows XP will be leaving the store shelves pretty quickly, Microsoft has announced that they will continue to offer support through April of 2014. That means they will, by the end have offered a full 13 years of support, instead of the more typical 10 year time frame.

This support will, according to Microsoft senior VP Bill Veghte come in the form of “security patches and other critical updates.“ He also mentioned, and this does add a little confusion to the whole XP going away, that;

“It’s true that we will stop selling Windows XP as a retail packaged product and stop licensing it directly to major PC manufacturers [after June 30],“ wrote Veghte. “But customers who still need Windows XP will be able to get it,“

We can only assume that the customers who still need it will be those “low-cost PC” manufacturers, which from last word will be available until June 2010. It sounds like its time to finally say goodbye to XP.

Via [Information Week]

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