Windows XP Home: obsolete sooner than you expect
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| henke54 Jan 05, 2006 10:26 PM EDT |
"Windows XP Home coming up short Windows XP Home is another story. As a consumer product, it suffers from two policy deficiencies. First, consumer products do not qualify for Extended Support, but instead move directly into the online support phase after Mainstream Support ends. Second, whereas business products are guaranteed Mainstream Support for two years beyond the release of the next subsequent version of a product (in this case, Windows Vista), consumer products do not get this built-in transitional period. The end result is that Windows XP Home will leave Mainstream Support and enter online support on January 1, 2007—in less than a year. When that day comes, XP Home users may feel left out in the cold, because they will no longer qualify for security updates, and will not be able to purchase support from Microsoft." http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060103-5891.html |
| tadelste Jan 06, 2006 2:19 PM EDT |
Interesting observation. Poor home users. wonder if they will even let someone activate a copy of home if they have to replace hardware. |
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