Windows XP Home\MCE Get Extended Support

January 24, 2007
Joe Wilcox

Under the revised lifecycle guidelines, Windows XP Home and Media Center support will end on the second Tuesday in April 2009 and extended support will end five years later(2014). The latter five years is significant. Microsoft doesn't typically offer extended support for consumer products.

Previously, Microsoft said that Windows XP Home and Media Center mainstream support would end two years after the release of Windows Vista, which is next Tuesday. This two-year date had extended previous support. Microsoft lists general availability of Windows XP as Dec. 31, 2001. Mainstream support should have ended five years later, or the last day of 2006. Microsoft's stated availability for Media Center was Oct. 28, 2002.

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Perhaps Microsoft is sensing a slight delay in the migration to Vista!!

 

Well I'm certain this will not help. I was actually caught off guard at how quickly this came to be announced. One would think it a better idea to wait a couple of months into Vista release.

But maybe they are feeling that confident who knows.