Windows XP Home - is this correct?

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Lofty.

Saw this in a Newsgroup:

"SP3 may well be the last SP but no one will give you odds on it.
Licences for all versions of XP will continue to be issued until
January 31, 2009, support is
rumoured to end 4 years later in 2013 although some say April 2014."

Shall I need a later system?
 
Lofty. said:
Saw this in a Newsgroup:

"SP3 may well be the last SP but no one will give you odds on it.
Licences for all versions of XP will continue to be issued until
January 31, 2009, support is
rumoured to end 4 years later in 2013 although some say April 2014."

Shall I need a later system?
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I have no idea what you are actually concerned with/about.

You can always check out the life cycle of any Microsoft product (that has
gone into "RTM" status) here:
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselect

Specifically - for your question:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3221

Windows XP Home Edition
Generally Availability Date: 12/31/2001
Mainstream Support Retired: 4/14/2009
Extended Support Retired: 4/8/2014

#3 here explains the differences:
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy

Now - as for Windows XP's *real* life - that doesn't depend necessarily on
support from Microsoft at all. Hardware vendors have a LOT of control.
They may choose to only release drivers for the latest operating systems -
which means your new XXXX may not function 100% under Windows XP.
 
My apologies. I wrongly thought that there was a suggestion in the
thread that SP3 had been issued.
I am using SP2 and had seen nothing in the updates.
Thanks for the information.
 
Loft

SP3 is scheduled to be released between January and June 2008.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Lofty. said:
My apologies. I wrongly thought that there was a suggestion in the
thread that SP3 had been issued.
I am using SP2 and had seen nothing in the updates.
Thanks for the information.
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Lofty. said:
My apologies. I wrongly thought that there was a suggestion in the
thread that SP3 had been issued.
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It has not been publicly released.

IIRC there are some *beta* releases of SP3.

If you use your system for work and/or have valuable data on it, you are not
interested in beta versions.


HTH
-pk
I am using SP2 and had seen nothing in the updates.
Thanks for the information.
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Thanks.
Gerry said:
Loft

SP3 is scheduled to be released between January and June 2008.

--



Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Lofty. said:
My apologies. I wrongly thought that there was a suggestion in the
thread that SP3 had been issued.
I am using SP2 and had seen nothing in the updates.
Thanks for the information.
Click to expand...
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Thanks.
Patrick Keenan said:
Lofty. said:
My apologies. I wrongly thought that there was a suggestion in the
thread that SP3 had been issued.
Click to expand...

It has not been publicly released.

IIRC there are some *beta* releases of SP3.

If you use your system for work and/or have valuable data on it, you
are not interested in beta versions.


HTH
-pk
I am using SP2 and had seen nothing in the updates.
Thanks for the information.
Click to expand...
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