This week Microsoft's 'mainstream support' comes to end for their most popular operating system, Windows XP.While XP has been given a few life span extensions in stores, the 8 year old operating system is gradually -- but certainly -- getting closer and closer the proverbial end of the road. Microsoft is in the slightly strange position of ending mainstream support for XP, when adoption rates of their newer operating system, Vista, were so low that there are roughly three computers running XP for every one running Vista. What is the 'mainstream support' that we are talking about? It basically means non-critical support. Here is a chart from MS showing the difference between mainstream support and XP's extended support, which ends in 08/04/2014.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Microsoft ends mainstream support for Windows XP
This week Microsoft's 'mainstream support' comes to end for their most popular operating system, Windows XP.While XP has been given a few life span extensions in stores, the 8 year old operating system is gradually -- but certainly -- getting closer and closer the proverbial end of the road. Microsoft is in the slightly strange position of ending mainstream support for XP, when adoption rates of their newer operating system, Vista, were so low that there are roughly three computers running XP for every one running Vista. What is the 'mainstream support' that we are talking about? It basically means non-critical support. Here is a chart from MS showing the difference between mainstream support and XP's extended support, which ends in 08/04/2014.
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