All support for Windows XP to end April 8th 2014

[Scarlett.]

All support for Windows XP and Office 2003 will end in two years as of this past Sunday. Mainstream support for two other entities ends this week however. Mainstream support for Windows Vista will end on Tuesday 10th April, and for Office 2007, today.

Microsoft divides its support lifecycle into two stages: "Mainstream" and "Extended." In the Mainstream phase, software receives the full range of free security updates, stability improvements, bug fixes, and occasional new features. In the Extended phase, only security updates are freely available, though companies with paid support contracts can receive other fixes.

Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/04/two-years-left-of-windows-xp-support-windows-vista-ending-mainstream-support-imminently/)


Good time to upgrade to Windows 7 for those who havent done so yet.

P.S. Mac users, I preemptively tell you to **** and **** no one cares about your hipster PC.


Edit: Acronyms are blocked now? :o

[Z]

Scary how quickly things are becoming obsolete nowadays.

[King Gizzard]

Somewhere in Cork Niamh and the family are panicking

[Scarlett.]

Scary how quickly things are becoming obsolete nowadays.

To be fair XP has had a real good run and still has almost two whole years left, thats a whole 13 years of service, and even better - people can even still use it and have perfectly functioning computers.

[Samuel.]

It'd be 13 years old in 2014 tbf. Surprising it's lasted as long as it has.

[Z]

Wow, genuinely didn't realise it was that old. Scary how fast I'm growing up then :laugh2: