Anonymous wrote:
> I got a brochure from a consumer electronics chain store
> in my letter box.
> There are two netbooks (major brands) for sale with Windows XP.
> So tell me why Redmond should stop supporting XP!
First - they manufacture it/support it and they get to decide when it dies
and posted said date many years ago anyway - April 2014. When you
manufacture something, then you get to decide when you stop supporting it -
not the entities that sell it nor the entities that purchase it - although
both *may* sway you, that is not a requirement.
Not to mention - April 2014 - c'mon, read that date again - it's July
(almost August) 2010 - you have got another 3 years and 8 months of
published support for Windows XP - who *cares* if someone (anyone) is still
selling systems with Windows XP given that? Not exactly *news*, eh?
Perhaps you did not KNOW the support end-date?
So - just to make it clear *one more time*...
April, 2014 - they will stop putting out updates for Windows XP with
SP3.
For those who want a more official quote than mine:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&C2=1173
Individually:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3221
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3223
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3222
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7023
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7024
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3228
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7801
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=8599
For the future - might I suggest an Internet search engine? This
question has been asked several times over the years - and answered in much
the same manner as I have just done. Most - if not all - of those queries
are still out on the Internet and many are indexed by the various Internet
search engines.
Now maybe you don't understand what "Extended Support" is... The table
under #3 explains it...
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy
Basically - you'll still get security updates, be able to browse the
Knowledge Base articles and pay for further help (at ~$59/incident) if you
need to. Not really all that different than it was last month.
If you have not installed SP3 - I suggest you do so before 7/13/2010
(uh oh!.) At that point - you may not be able to install updates onto the
Windows XP operating system after that date if you do not already
have SP3 (did I say "uh oh"? Yep - that date just passed recently.)
So - if you have Windows XP (32-bit) with Service Pack 3 - you will
continue to receive security updates from Microsoft (your OS is
'supported') through April 2014 - 3 years and 8 months from today.
Therefore - if some manufacturer decided to continue selling systems
with Windows XP right now, that is their choice and not an
unsupported one. It just may be a poor choice by consumers to grab
such a system and expect hardware *beyond* the system itself
to be supported in the future by other manufacturers in the
antiquated OS.
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