Saturday, March 27, 2010

Windows 2000, XP SP2 and Vista End of Life Support

Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server are approaching 10 years since their launch and both products will go out of support on July 13, 2010.

Windows XP was launched back in 2001. While support for the product will continue, Service Pack 2 will go out of support on July 13, 2010. From that date onwards, Microsoft will no longer support or provide free security updates for Windows XP SP2.

Finally, Windows Vista with no Service Packs installed will end support on April 13 2010. Please install the free Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista to have the most secure and supported Windows Vista platform.

Users who still have Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista with no Service Packs installed and are not planning to switch to Windows 7 yet should update their versions in order to get supported. XP users should install SP3 and Vista users should get SP2.

More information can be read here.

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