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From: Anonymous on 29 Jul 2010 00:30
I got a brochure from a consumer electronics chain store
in my letter box.
There are two netbooks (major brands) for sale with Windows XP.
So tell me why Redmond should stop supporting XP!

From: Shenan Stanley on 29 Jul 2010 01:25
Anonymous wrote:
> I got a brochure from a consumer electronics chain store
> in my letter box.
> There are two netbooks (major brands) for sale with Windows XP.
> So tell me why Redmond should stop supporting XP!

First - they manufacture it/support it and they get to decide when it dies
and posted said date many years ago anyway - April 2014. When you
manufacture something, then you get to decide when you stop supporting it -
not the entities that sell it nor the entities that purchase it - although
both *may* sway you, that is not a requirement.

Not to mention - April 2014 - c'mon, read that date again - it's July
(almost August) 2010 - you have got another 3 years and 8 months of
published support for Windows XP - who *cares* if someone (anyone) is still
selling systems with Windows XP given that? Not exactly *news*, eh?
Perhaps you did not KNOW the support end-date?

So - just to make it clear *one more time*...

April, 2014 - they will stop putting out updates for Windows XP with
SP3.

For those who want a more official quote than mine:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&C2=1173

Individually:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3221
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3223
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3222
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7023
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7024
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3228
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7801
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=8599

For the future - might I suggest an Internet search engine? This
question has been asked several times over the years - and answered in much
the same manner as I have just done. Most - if not all - of those queries
are still out on the Internet and many are indexed by the various Internet
search engines.

Now maybe you don't understand what "Extended Support" is... The table
under #3 explains it...
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy

Basically - you'll still get security updates, be able to browse the
Knowledge Base articles and pay for further help (at ~$59/incident) if you
need to. Not really all that different than it was last month.

If you have not installed SP3 - I suggest you do so before 7/13/2010
(uh oh!.) At that point - you may not be able to install updates onto the
Windows XP operating system after that date if you do not already
have SP3 (did I say "uh oh"? Yep - that date just passed recently.)

So - if you have Windows XP (32-bit) with Service Pack 3 - you will
continue to receive security updates from Microsoft (your OS is
'supported') through April 2014 - 3 years and 8 months from today.
Therefore - if some manufacturer decided to continue selling systems
with Windows XP right now, that is their choice and not an
unsupported one. It just may be a poor choice by consumers to grab
such a system and expect hardware *beyond* the system itself
to be supported in the future by other manufacturers in the
antiquated OS. ;-)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


From: Twayne on 29 Jul 2010 10:49
In news:49v256d8qm7i37i32tcnm33i2ct4fksdeq(a)4ax.com,
Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] <.@.> typed:
>> I got a brochure from a consumer electronics chain store
>> in my letter box.
>> There are two netbooks (major brands) for sale with
>> Windows XP. So tell me why Redmond should stop supporting
>> XP!
>
> I did read a news blurb that, yet again, XP sales for OEMs
> has been extended a bit longer. It must still be making
> them money so why not.
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]

IMO:
Vista sales have dropped to a drbble and most people have discovered win7 is
nothing but Vista with shiny new paint job, so it's sales aren't escalating
as expected. MS released a better OS in XP than they intended to, and people
aren't as dumb as they used to be. XP will live a long time after 2014. And
as always, it'll still get critical updates well after 2014, same as 2000
(got one last month), 98 (but it's pretty stable now).
Update SP2 to SP3 and you get auto services until 2014. But that has
nothing to do with the viability of the OS; MS can't shut it out by
obsolescences like they did with 3.1, 95 and 98.
In reality, there is little to worry about unless/until MS finds a way to
force it out of existance which will be hard for them to do.

HTH,

Twayne`
H,

Twayne`


From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 29 Jul 2010 12:10
Who said Microsoft has stopped supporting WinXP?

Anonymous wrote:
> I got a brochure from a consumer electronics chain store
> in my letter box.
> There are two netbooks (major brands) for sale with Windows XP.
> So tell me why Redmond should stop supporting XP!
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