Windows XP Support Extended

[roddy32]

Published: 2006-01-12,
Last Updated: 2006-01-12 22:17:50 UTC by David Goldsmith (Version: 1)

The Windows XP family of operating systems (Home, Pro, Embedded, Tablet and Media Center) were due to have official support end at the end of this year.  This was based on Microsoft's decision to provide mainstream support OSes for five years after their initial release. Since the release of Windows Vista has slipped, currently there is no follow-on OS expected to be out before the December 31, 2006 deadline.

Rather than provide a specfic date for the extended deadline for support for the Windows XP OSes, Microsoft is simply saying they will continue to provide support for Windows XP for two years after the next OS is released.

More here
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?n&storyid=1037

[roddy32]

More on this from a different source is here.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6026576.html?tag=zdnn.alert

[Corrine]

The official word from Microsoft for XP Home, XP Media Center (2004 & 2005) and XP Tablet PC Edition is:

Mainstream support will end two years after the next version of this product is released.

XP Professional & XP Professional x64 Edition have the additional notre:

Extended support will end five years after mainstream support ends.

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/Default.aspx?C2=1173

[mitch]

how about them being fair and something like

2 years after the last known bug/flaw is fixed ;-)

:tease:

but guess that would be to hard for them to do that! cause i am going to run XP on this box forever and i would play hell getting parts in another 20 years waiting for them to have a stable bug free version

[JOSEPH]

I just had a souring thought after revisiting this thread again. What better way for microslow to push users into VISTA then bringing down the curtains on XP.

I'm not entirely convinced that all these continuous exploits that keep cropping up year after year are all done for fun by scripty experimenters but rather perhaps by design? or dare i say encouraged by the micro systems originators incognito? to "Scare" folks into forking over again for a new micro operating system.

Anyone else see a definitive pattern here?

Now if one see's an industry return to a product that originally set the stage for global internet popularity as the 95 then 98's done and continued to improve on it while releasing newer versions, THAT! to me would indicate a HIGH confidence factor in that vendor and definitely would be perfect grounds for encouragement enough to go that next extra mile to the next step up without blinking an eyelid.
As things seem to stand in truth and in fact, at least how i see it, what about this same industry that not only TURNS IT'S BACK! on it's original design that made it famous to begin with, but progressively NEGLECTS, continually on each ensuing new release after only a couple few seasons have passed with an announced STATEMENT that their earlier product will "No Longer Be Supported"!
Well, golly gee mee Mrs Fullbright, that means to me then that the more effort that some clever field workers in this type software put into developing more and more EXPLOITS!! to each of these CD systems released that increasingly make those systems "AT RISK" or vulnerable, AND since they no longer are revisted or improved on anymore by their maker, then we are left with no other choice then to TOTALLY abandon it ourselves for the NEWEST! released product which also promises to be safer then those that went before. RIGHT?

Anyone else see a definitive pattern here?

Enter CATCH-22!

Whether directly because or in spite of these now proved O/S limitations or deliberate NEGLECT? an incredible upsurge is been created forming multiple global O/S defense software industries over the years, from Anti-Virus to Anti-Spy and everything else in-between. On that note you could presuppose it's a very productive environment for many, for microsoft to fall short in these areas of security or outright NEGLECT? where their Operating Systems are concerned, or at least just enough for others to take up that slack. For what it's worth, not a bad act.

Anyone care to speculate whether all this is a carefully conceived and calculated plan, designed to attract to each and every new business model such as VISTA now or else do we timidly lean to notion that their technical expertise is sorely lacking that bad that microsoft just cannot salary well enough competent and innovative software engineers and designers to improve on these former systems, and so they choose to completely leave them behind, and as it were, and go back to the drawing board?

Anyone else see a definitive pattern here?

The Windows XP family of operating systems (Home, Pro, Embedded, Tablet and Media Center) were due to have official support end at the end of this year.  This was based on Microsoft's decision to provide mainstream support OSes for five years after their initial release. Since the release of Windows Vista has slipped, currently there is no follow-on OS expected to be out before the December 31, 2006 deadline.

Rather than provide a specfic date for the extended deadline for support for the Windows XP OSes, Microsoft is simply saying they will continue to provide support for Windows XP for two years after the next OS is released.

:tease:

[winchester73]

Well, I can't speak for anyone else ... but I drive a car now instead of riding a horse as my ancestors did.  I listen to FM radio, not just AM ... and to think there is satellite radio now.   I threw out my 8-track years ago when cassettes came out, and have since converted my vinyl, etc, to CDs.  Come to think of it, I watch DVDs now instead of videotapes or 8mm film.

Sometimes progress is really progress.