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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. Piffle. by PinchDuck · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    9.04 with better support for my Intel 965 graphics chip is much bigger news to me.

  2. Re:Programming... by cayenne8 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "Heh. Until I looked at the title of your comment, I thought you were talking about sex. Should have known better, I guess ..."

    That's why you never give a chick your 'real' name. That way, she can't track you down after that one night stand.

    Also, you go back to her place...not yours, that helps too.

    :)

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    Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
  3. Re:Why not open it up by nabsltd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, I know how to copy and paste as well as the next guy: £

    Then, it would appear "the next guy" can't copy and paste correctly, since you managed to insert an extra symbol when you pasted.

    Also, since this is HTML, whether you have a £ symbol on your keyboard isn't important. To reliably have anything with a character code outside of the 7-bit ASCII range display, you must use HTML entities.

    So, to get £ to display, you would have to type "£".