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   Anonymous
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   https://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/its-the-end-of-mainstream-support-for-windows-vista/12370

   On April 10, 2012 — a k a, tomorrow — Windows Vista’s period of free, Microsoft-provided mainstream support comes to an end.

   What’s that mean to users still running one of Microsoft’s least publicly popular versions of Windows?

   If you ask Microsoft, officials there will likely tell you that the end of mainstream support means it’s the ideal time to upgrade to Windows 7. But in reality, there are still a number of years left — five, to be exact — before Extended Support for Vista ends. That date is April 11, 2017, for all versions of Vista.

   Interestingly, Windows XP, which Microsoft introduced in 2001 (six years before it launched Vista), doesn’t exit the Extended Support phase until 2014 (for XP with Service Pack 3). But XP still has considerably more market share than Vista.

   As Computerworld noted, Microsoft also is moving Office 2007 into the Extended Support phase this week (today, April 9, to be precise).

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Little Bear
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   Even if you have an XP computer with at least 1GB of Ram and your hardware is not generally supported you can easily use basic functions with XPDM drivers with Windows 7.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Anonymous
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   http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-030907.htm
   Thanks Little Bear
   http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=21842

   I got ATI Radeon 9600 it ok with windows 7 not like it so back to XP my laptop is win 7 not to bad now had for some time things I don't like is all the new names no add or Remove told win 7 to look it said no bad luck so google it to find it allso not as fast mic is doing it best to kill off XP & Vista Vista will just like ME be for long go to Microsoft & you Vista no info just like ME you can get info on win 95 ,98 ,2000 ,XP ok

   http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Mainstream-Support-of-Windows-Vista-has-ended-1518534.html

   Contrary to the original schedule, the Extended Support period will not only cover Vista Business and Enterprise, but also all other versions from Starter to Ultimate, and it will end on 11 April 2017. All versions of XP and Windows 7 are also have five-year "Extended Support" periods. For XP, this period is due to end on 8 April 2014 while Windows 7's period, which has yet to enter the second phase, will end on 14 January 2020.
   Future patches will require Vista Service Pack 2; installations that are based on an previous service packs will no longer be supported.

   https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/253585
   /clock_is_ticking_on_xptime_to_start_os_migration.html#tk.hp_new

   https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx

   https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226023/Microsoft_starts_XP_retirement_countdown

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Anonymous
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   http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/421373/opinion_microsoft_instead_turning_lights_off_xp_make_it_open_source/

   Microsoft, instead of turning the lights off on XP, make it open source
   is there an ethical issue Microsoft should be considering when it hands out the death sentence on a old product?

   https://www.networkworld.com/community/node/80263

   End of Windows XP support era signals beginning of security nightmare
   Consumer, corporate and even SCADA systems could be at risk when Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP.
   no surprise that Windows XP remains one of the most common operating systems despite the introduction of two entirely new versions in the decade since it hit shelves. In fact, March 2012 statistics from NetMarketShare.com show XP in the lead for operating system market share, at 43.09%.

   “Where do you think all these botnets are set up? They’re not set up on the corporate computers,” Miller says. “They’re set up on my grandmother’s computer, my mother’s computer, and they don’t even know its running because they’re running vulnerable software out there.”

   "If you’re writing viruses your main goal is to be non-intrusive. I do not blue-screen the machine. I do not crash the machine. I am on the machine silently. They do not even know I’m there. Hence the bot that runs," Miller says. "So there probably will be quite a few people that will be in a security nightmare in that aspect of it."

   Posted 12 years ago #

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