In my opinion not many ordinary users know about software lifecycles, while it is especially important  when we talk about OS.

Many  thanks for the info Daniel! :D

 

Mike

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While I am not currently using XP at this point, I heard that Microsoft had issued a pop-up to XP users advising them of the End Of Support process.

 

@ , can you confirm this?

 

If so, Microsoft deserves a few Kudo's for this in my opinion!

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Last month there was an update with a pop-up to let XP users know I wish I took a snapshot of it!

 

Daniel

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I MIGHT be able to get one... not sure.  I will check back on this tomorrow if I can.

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Also this is cool about XP and Ofice 2003 end of life!

 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/business/retiring-xp.aspx

 

And here is the notification: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2934207

 

Daniel

 

From my XP Pro VM.

 

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Microsoft reveals final Windows XP and Office 2003 security patches

 

In just five days, Microsoft will release the final updates for Windows XP and Office 2003. Today, the company posted a quick summary of the security bulletins it plans to release on April 8th, including those for XP and Office 2003.

 

Windows XP will receive a "Critical" update for IE6, 7 and 8, according to the summary, and will also get a patch labeled as "Important" on its own. Windows Server 2003 gets the same updates, but the first one is only been labeled as a "Moderate" patch. Office 2003 gets two patches as well. One is called "Critical" and is designed to fix the exploit found to affect all current versions of Word; the other patch has an "Important" label and fixes an issue in Microsoft Publisher 2003.

 

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