Microsoft extends support life of XP

MICROSOFT HAS PROMISED to provide support services for its soon-to-be-retired Windows XP until 2014 because too many of its key business users are still running the ageing OS.

This will mean that Vole will be continuing to support the software 13 years after it first appeared on the shelf.

Microsoft senior VP Bill Veghte wrote to users this week saying that Vole will provide security patches "and other critical updates" for Windows XP until April, 2014.

The communication admitted that the reason Microsoft had to extend the service of XP was because "people keep their Windows-based PCs for many years".

Until now, Microsoft’s policy has been to kill off any support for an OS a decade after its first release. Windows 2000 is going to be scrapped in 2010.

What is more likely is that many of Microsoft’s enterprise customers have been leaning on the company to extend the time. Most of them do not want to upgrade to the lacklustre Vista and are still shelling out fortunes for XP.

Microsoft has also been offering a downgrade programme from Vista which will need to be serviced

Source- The Inquirer

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