Windows XP, a date to remember: April 8, 2014
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Confirmation that XP will be present in the Windows family for many years, with a health safe beautiful fixed until April 2014.
Like Bill Gates, the time of retirement has come for the Windows XP operating system. But the image of co-founder of Microsoft, it will rather talk about pre-retirement. In a letter published on the Microsoft site, Bill Veghte, vice president Windows Business Group, has provided few details of circumstance, whereas the late sales of Windows XP, it’s officially on June 30, 2008. Number of users arise therefore legitimate questions.
We hear talk about XP for a long time
The most important of these is probably the support of Windows XP, and you can say that users have time to see coming as security patches and other critical updates will continue to run until April 2014. Calendar in support, the last Patch Tuesday for Windows XP will fall … a Tuesday, April 8, 2014, unless of course that by then, Microsoft makes changes to its security policy. Is it ever. In any case for XP, it augurs for 13 years full of patches since its release in October 2001.
For Veghte, long-term support is the recognition that users are very attached to their PC-based Windows, and in the case of Windows XP. The rage for some who have not hesitated to take part in petitions to save XP. However, manufacturers will receive more copies of Windows XP to load into their new machines.
Until January 31, 2009, obtain Windows XP will remain possible, however, its sale is still permitted by the integrators. Likewise, a priori until June 2010, Windows XP Home and starters may find refuge in the ultra low-cost personal computers deemed eligible given their small configuration (non-touch screen at least 10.2 inches, 1 GB of RAM, hard disk of 80 GB, single processor core 1 GHz).
In addition, Veghte said that manufacturers like Dell have already begun to implement the right to “downgrade” to put forward on Windows XP Pro after purchasing a license (or purchase of a PC) Windows Vista Business or Ultimate.
With all this, we will have one day or another a successor to Windows XP and its output general public has been confirmed for early 2010. Ah … non … XP already has a successor since 2007 and it is called Windows Vista. After the improvements made by its first service pack, remains to be seen whether it can find its place and restore its image tainted by a difficult start.
They know Windows Vista sux! :p