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Microsoft Pulling the Plug On Windows XP In Three Years

Posted by Unknown on from the kill-it-with-fire dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in with an article from myce. Microsoft will be discontinuing all support for Windows XP in Spring 2014. Coinciding with the announcement, Microsoft released a 1,000-day countdown gadget to help XP users pass the time until their IT departments get into gear. Maybe.

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  1. Re:Not a moment too soon! by Afforess · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ubuntu does not maintains Long Term releases that long. Apple is notorious for dropping support for previous OS X versions (um, talk to the people trapped on OS X 10.4 due to the intel switch).

    Sorry buddy, your facts are wrong.

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  2. Plenty! by sjbe · · Score: 5, Informative

    How many other companies are expected to maintain 10+ year old software, even after TWO new releases (Vista, Win7) are available?

    Off the top of my head:

    • Every aerospace company that makes software
    • Every military contractor that makes software
    • Most banking software
    • Lots of software that runs on a mainframe (AS/400, etc)
    • Point of sale systems
    • Healthcare equipment
    • CNC machining equipment
    • Accounting systems

    Just to name a few. There is software out there which demands support periods measured in decades. LOTS of companies are expected to maintain support for old software.