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From: Harry Brown <[email protected]>
Date: April 24, 2012 3:19:02 PM CDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: [VICUG-L] Microsoft to pull plug on XP in 2 years, already did with
Vista!
Reply-To: Harry Brown <[email protected]>
Hi all,
See below.
Harry
Microsoft to Pull Plug on XP in Two Years - Computerworld
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226394/Microsoft_to_Pull_Plug_on_XP_in_Two_Years
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Microsoft to pull plug on XP in 2 years
By Gregg Keizer
April 23, 2012 06:00 AM ET17 Comments. What's this?.Computerworld - Microsoft
has kicked off what it calls a "two-year countdown" to the death of Windows XP
and the Office 2003 productivity suite.
Separately, Microsoft announced that Windows Vista, the problem-plagued
operating system that never really took hold among customers, exited mainstream
support on April 10. In a product's extended support phase, Microsoft provides
security patches to registered users but offers other fixes, including
reliability and stability updates, only to organizations that have support
contracts with the company.
Windows XP and Office 2003 will no longer be supported as of April 8, 2014, a
company spokeswoman said in a recent blog post. On that date, Microsoft will
stop shipping security updates for both products.
At that point, XP will have become Microsoft's longest-lived operating system.
The company will have maintained the software for 12 years and five months --
or about two and a half years longer than it usually supports an OS. It
supported the previous record-holder, Windows NT, for 11 years and five months.
Both XP and Office 2003 have been hugely successful. XP went on sale in October
2001, and Office 2003 launched in October 2003. "Windows XP and Office 2003
were great software releases, but the technology environment has shifted," said
Stella Chernyak, a Microsoft marketing director.
Some customers will continue to run XP even after it is retired. About 16% of
organizations "say they will have more than 5% of their users still on XP even
after support ends," according to Gartner analyst Michael Silver, citing a
survey his firm conducted in October 2011.
Not surprisingly, Microsoft wants users to upgrade to Windows 7 now. "If your
organization has not started the migration to a modern PC, you are late," the
company said, referring to data that indicates that enterprise OS migrations
take 18 to 32 mon
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