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Windows XP SP1 Support Ends Tuesday

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cut-off dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:And once again... (you can say that again!) by AndyCater · · Score: 4, Informative

    Debian Stable - release cycle on about 18 months and support for up to a year after that. Debian repositories and archives have versions back about ten years - so you should always be able to upgrade. Debian testing and unstable are updated at least daily - stable only when there are security fixes. If you mean "paid for" enterprise Linux then Red Hat is now at 7 years or so support - but stuff changes with the interim updates as far as I can see.

  2. Re:Heh by bmo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why don't you look for yourself?

    The latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.33.3 2006-08-31 20:20 UTC
    The latest prepatch for the 2.4 Linux kernel tree is: 2.4.34-pre4 2006-10-02 20:45 UTC

    Seems pretty recent to me.

    http://www.kernel.org/

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    BMO

  3. Re:The problem by quentin_quayle · · Score: 4, Informative
    "Are you saying a bug can't be a feature?!"

    With Microsoft it can!

    And a "feature" can be a bug. One reason the holdouts have avoided SP2 is that Microsoft intentionally degraded the networking with SP2. Yes it's fixable, but not perfectly, and I'm not sure I care to bother with it.

    This is one of the long-planned milestones on my migration to another OS (references to which have become a cliché in this connection).

    Many of the fixes aren't even needed for a lean-and-mean XP configuration, so the time to an "upgrade or exposure" choice may be longer than this month.

  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Informative

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. You should be fired by toadlife · · Score: 4, Informative
    I hope you're just trolling, though I've met many IT people like you, so I'm thinking you may be serious.

    "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.
    Microsoft announced the cutoff date for SP1 a long, long, long time ago. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was known before SP2 was even released.

    Have fun rushing out SP2. You only have yourself to blame.
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    I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
  6. Re:The problem by suv4x4 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem with Microsoft is that they never separate bug fixes from feature additions. So either you stay vulnerable or you eat more and more of their junk.

    I didn't want to move to Firefox 1.5. It worked slower and ate far mre RAM on my machines.
    But alas, few exploits later, I updated.

    Because Firefox 1.0 support ended the moment 1.5 was out. Let's see for how long Firefox 1.5 will be supported when the official 2.0 release is out.

    Let me guess: 0 days.

  7. They'll prise Win2K from my cold dead hands. by burnttoy · · Score: 4, Informative

    What can I say. It works, it works well and most drivers (I've yet to find a broken one) work well thanks to WDM.

    I shove a decent firewall on the thing, ditch IE and install my apps of choice and I'm away.

    The only thing missing is Cleartype fonts.

    Best version of Windows ever.

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    Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.