UK Computer magazine claims MS to support XP to 2019 - Can we confirm this?

[Al Dykes]

Tis was posted on March 26/08


http://forums.vnunet.com/message.jspa?messageID=1034775

If you read this months PCW there are two good articles.

In his article Barry Fox concluded. (confirmed with Microsoft) .
"Service pack 3 for XP is due sometime in 2008; retail sales of XP end
in June 2008 and there will be no new PCs with XP after January
2009.

From then on there will be five years of bug fixes and ten years of
security updates. So XP will continue to be tweaked for best
performance until January 2014 and XP will get security updates until
2019"

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&x=18&y=15&p1=3223

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: Tis was posted on March 26/08
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: http://forums.vnunet.com/message.jspa?messageID=1034775
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: If you read this months PCW there are two good articles.
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: In his article Barry Fox concluded. (confirmed with Microsoft) .
: "Service pack 3 for XP is due sometime in 2008; retail sales of XP end
: in June 2008 and there will be no new PCs with XP after January
: 2009.
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: From then on there will be five years of bug fixes and ten years of
: security updates. So XP will continue to be tweaked for best
: performance until January 2014 and XP will get security updates until
: 2019"
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: Al Dykes
: News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is
advertising.
: - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
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[Colin Barnhorst]

Incorrect. Mainstream support ends in April 2009 (two years after being
superceded by Vista). Extended support then runs for five more years. The
comment has confused retail availability (ending in three months),
mainstream support (ending in 2009), and extended support (ending in 2014)
and added an extra five years. There is no extra five years after 2014.