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[Jerry Gamblin]

Microsoft will not change their EOL on XP past 2009. It would be
corporate suicide to do that.
They don't make any money on what most people consider support
(patches) so supporting
an operating system they are not generating any revenue from doesn't
make any finical sense
for them to do it.  XP SP3 will be the swan song for XP like SP4 was
the end of the line for W2K.



On Jan 16, 2008 1:50 PM, Vern Green <hayvern at gmail.com> wrote:
> Right, because of the requirements and the problems they are having with
> Vista, they will not desupport it that soon.
>
> Also, a lot of going to depend on the adoption of Server 2008 due to come
> out this year. If they do not see a lot of companies buying into 2008 early
> on, you will see them continueing to support XP for a while longer than
> 2009.
>
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2008 11:29 AM, Jonathan King <jonathan.w.king at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/16/08, Jim Locke <jimlocke2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > It will be interesting to see what happens late this year or early next
> > > year, as I believe I heard MS was going to support XP through 2008.
> This
> > > implies de-supporting in 2009.
> >
> > I don't know what the official policy is going to be, but, as a fed, I
> > would be very, very surprised to see MS really de-support the hundreds
> > of thousands of government computers that will likely still be running
> > XP Pro in 2009.
> >
> > jking
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Thanks,

Jerry Gamblin