WINXP Date Updates End(?) EOM

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I think EOM is "end of message," maybe? And with the question mark in
parentheses, it may or may not be a question? Hard to say, harder to answer,
not knowing whether it is or isn't. :)
 
Sorry, I got You Gentlemen all upset. Yes, EOM, means, End Of Message. And
sorry about the () as I was just separating the stuff.

Anyway, back to my question, which I will Re-Type in this designated box, so
as not to upset any other Gentlemen.

Now, I've forgotten my question after all this brew-ha-ah. Oh, when will
Microsoft stop sending Updates (Hot Fixes) or whatever the proper term is,
for Users of WindowsXP?

Did I do better, now?
 
Bob said:
Please use this area to type in the question.
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SC said:
I think EOM is "end of message," maybe? And with the question mark
in parentheses, it may or may not be a question? Hard to say,
harder to answer, not knowing whether it is or isn't. :)
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Sorry, I got You Gentlemen all upset. Yes, EOM, means, End Of
Message. And sorry about the () as I was just separating the stuff.

Anyway, back to my question, which I will Re-Type in this
designated box, so as not to upset any other Gentlemen.

Now, I've forgotten my question after all this brew-ha-ah. Oh, when
will Microsoft stop sending Updates (Hot Fixes) or whatever the
proper term is, for Users of WindowsXP?

Did I do better, now?
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SC said:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&p1=3223&x=10&y=10

This applies to all flavors of XP except Embedded, which is until
2016.
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Direct answer: April 2014 *if* you have installed Service Pack 3 at this
point. You'll probably stop getting some updates sooner than that if you
have not installed SP3.


biermanoski,

It's not that you 'upset' anyone; you basically just walked into a crowded
room wearing a T-Shirt that said "WINXP Date Updates End(?)" on the front
and "EOM" on the back and then probably wondered why your standing in a
corner of the room not making any eye contact or noise wasn't getting you an
answer. The truth is - getting any conversation at all from a message
without a body was just luck. ;-)

Consider it more like friendly advice to keep you from making the mistake
again. Unsolicited advice, yep - but again - that was just luck. ;-P

More direct example - ever tried mailing a letter to someone in the
following fashion?

Take out a clean (unused) sheet of completely blank plain typing paper, fold
it up, put it in an unaddressed envelope. Put a stamp on the envelope. On
the backside of the envelope, write "WINXP Date Updates End(?) EOM" (perhaps
on the top of the sealing area) and then seal the envelope. Now put some
general address on it to go to (perhaps some crowded office building
halfaway around the world from you) and just put your name in the return
address area (in fact - just put a nickname) and take it down to the post
office and mail it. Wait for your answer patiently. *Very Patiently* -
because it is unlikely to ever come. ;-)

While you are thinking of this as a "bulletin board", and in many ways it
is, even on a bulletin board - more information is sometimes better if you
truly expect decent results. Sure - just posting an address and time/date
on a bulletin board might get some people at that location at that time -
but those are a particular type of person (perhaps just that bored and
overly curious) and that may not have been the result you were looking for.
*grin*

So - again - no one here is *upset* - they were merely 'kind enough' to
point out that in the future - you might benefit from expanding on your
queries in forums such as these. (By the way - an example from the
electronic formats - some email clients and such would take an email with no
message body at all (only a subject) and trash it as SPAM - because it is...
unusual.)
 
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