Windows XP support killed by MS

[Polymorphherald]

G'day,
This day had to come and is why I switched to Linux as XP SP2
represented one of their best OS.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/13/1816245/Microsoft-Kills-Support-For-XP-SP2

From a business point of view I can understand this move but the
majority of Windows Users are still XP. If they want continued
support they will have to update to Vista/Win 7 - and possibly upgrade
their computer. From a social justice and environmental standpoint it
really isn't good! Oh well that's big business and perhaps represents
an opportunity.

Cheers
Martin

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[Sam Moffatt]

Windows XP SP3 would remain supported in my mind which remains fair.
They're slowly cutting down the supportable releases. Given it is six
years old I don't think anyone really supports software from more than
six years, especially in the Linux sphere (Ubuntu LTS is at best 5
years for server OS). I don't forsee them cutting off SP3 in the near
future however.

Sam Moffatt
http://pasamio.id.au