Windows XP SP1 Support Ends Tuesday

tophee writes "ZDNet reports that support for Windows XP SP1 and SP1a will be ending this coming Tuesday. From the article: 'Microsoft will end support for Windows XP Service Pack 1 and SP1a on Tuesday, leaving people no option but to upgrade to Service Pack 2 if they wish to continue to receive crucial components, including security software.' Colin Barker of ZDNet notes, 'There's little reason for anyone to still be running SP1; SP2 contained a range of improvements to XP's security.'"

Comments

And once again...

[bassgoonist]

Just cut it off while you're only slightly behind...gotta love MS

Re:And once again... (you can say that again!)

[TheAwfulTruth]

Slightly behind? SP1 is 4 years old!

Name me ONE linux distro that is supporting a release that is 4 years old! You can't get support for more than 6-12 months these days!

Thanks for the notice guys

[Butterspoon]

I'm an a large site that's running XP SP1 on all of quite a few thousand machines and I'd just like to say that one week notice of termination of support is ridiculous. Yes I know we've had SP2 for years and yes we should have upgraded, but one normally has many months of warning before they pull the support plug. Now we have just one week to test all our apps for SP2 compatibility, distribute the upgrade, and all the rest of it. In a week we are going to have equipment involved in *life or death* decisions running on an unsupported OS.

Yes, I hear you loud and clear: should have upgraded sooner, and you're quite right too. But Microsoft absolutely should not have dropped this on us like this out of the blue.