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Microsoft Ending Mainstream Support For XP

Posted by kdawson on from the population-inversion dept.

Slatterz writes "Come next week, Microsoft will be in the unusual position of no longer offering mainstream support for its most widely used product. Windows XP will pass another milestone next week on the road to retirement when mainstream support ends on 14 April 2009, over seven years after the OS originally shipped. While the company said that it will continue to provide free security fixes for XP until 2014, any future bugs found in the platform will not be fixed unless customers pay. Windows XP accounts for about 63 percent of all Internet-connected computers, according to March 2009 statistics from Hitslink, while Windows Vista makes up about 24 percent."

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  1. XP Sucks, Vista is Better by tjstork · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Time to Upgrade...

    If you don't like Vista, switch to Mac or Linux... but, Vista is the current version of Windows...

    --
    This is my sig.
  2. Re:Why not open it up by wmac · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Just graphic updates!?

  3. Re:Went with Linux by Erikderzweite · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because it is sooooo hard to hold the Alt key and drag a window (a killer feature btw if you have to use a touchpad).
    PEBKAC, my friend, that's what it is. Oh, and shitty ISP too.