Today, Microsoft is announcing the addition of an Extended Support phase for the Windows® XP Home Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition operating systems, providing consumers with an additional phase of support.
With the addition of Extended Support, the support life cycle for Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition will include a total of five years of Mainstream Support (until April 2009) and five years of Extended Support, matching the support policy provided for Windows XP Professional.
The Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy standardizes Microsoft® product support policies for business and developer products as well as for consumer, hardware, multimedia and Microsoft Dynamics™ products.
News source: MS Presspass
With the addition of Extended Support, the support life cycle for Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition will include a total of five years of Mainstream Support (until April 2009) and five years of Extended Support, matching the support policy provided for Windows XP Professional.
The Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy standardizes Microsoft® product support policies for business and developer products as well as for consumer, hardware, multimedia and Microsoft Dynamics™ products.
News source: MS Presspass
Pro has always had that period of extended support due to it being a business OS mate
Did you actually read the article?
Edit: Darn beaten to it.
You don't have the time to read 3 small paragraphs but have the time to ask a question and then come back later to look for any answer posted?
Apparently.
Yes, it's called Vista
Seriously though, I really wish MS would support their products longer than they do. After all it takes them at least 5 years to create an OS. Many companies (mine included) rely on legacy systems. This hasn't been a problem with most MS products because you could rely on third party products when MS abandoned you. Unfortunately with such a tight control over the low level areas (including kernel) of Vista, MS is basically screwing businesses who can't justify upgrading all the time. This latest move is making many IT people to re-think Linux.
I hope linux can be built up real good in that time cause I don't want to switch to Vista.
Ease of use and compatibilty are really the biggest reasons why people use windows.
I read this to mean 2014.
Hell I still run Windows 98 on another computer of mine
MS allways supported 2 (desktop) OS at the same time. So this could mean that the replacement for Vista will be here by April 2009... Remember, they just stoped the support for Win2000...
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