by Playfuls Staff |
25th January 2007
Microsoft announced the addition of an Extended Support
phase for the Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition
operating systems, providing consumers with an additional phase of [more] support.
With the addition of Extended Support, the support life
cycle for Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition will
include a total of five years of Mainstream Support (until April 2009) and five
years of Extended Support, matching the support policy provided for Windows XP
Professional.
The Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy standardizes
Microsoft product support policies for business and developer products as well
as for consumer, hardware, multimedia and Microsoft Dynamics products.
Previously, all support for Windows XP Home was slated to
end two years after the release of Vista, in
other words, at the end of January 2009. Windows XP debuted in October 2001.
Microsoft will launch on January 29 2007 in New York Windows
Vista and Office 2007 for consumers.
On November 30 2006, Microsoft launched it business versions
of Windows Vista and Office 2007 also in New York
during an event called Microsoft New Day for Business, held at t NASDAQ
MarketSite in Times Square.
Since the release of Windows 95 and Office 95, Microsoft has
delivered critical platform advances with each major release of its two
flagship products: TCP/IP in Windows 95 helped pave the way for the
popularization of the Internet, for example, while wireless capabilities in
Windows XP made mobile computing commonplace. New capabilities in Windows Vista
and the 2007 Office system such as significant advances in graphics and
pervasive support for XML and other technologies provide the framework for
creating new experiences for end users.
Computer makers hope that Windows Vista will determine a lot
of users and companies to upgrade their PCs and even buying new ones.
