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Xp support extended for life of Windows 7

Bill Z Bubba

By Bill Z Bubba,
Posted on: 2010-07-13 18:55 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...-extension.ars

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OEMs themselves will have to stop preinstalling downgraded copies of Windows XP on October 22, 2010. However, end-users will now be able to downgrade PCs with OEM installations of Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate to the corresponding version of Windows Vista or Windows XP Professional, and will be allowed to do so for the duration of Windows 7's lifecycle.
So, it's now official. You can use your Windows 7 licenses for Windows Xp... for the duration of Windows 7 lifecycle.

 

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Well dandy. Then we can stop paying Dell an extra hundred bucks to "downgrade" us to XP. We'll just get Win7 and load up our corporate copy of XP, yes?

Be well, people of CoH.

 

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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
Well dandy. Then we can stop paying Dell an extra hundred bucks to "downgrade" us to XP. We'll just get Win7 and load up our corporate copy of XP, yes?
that's what it reads like.

 

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Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight View Post
So... we'll be able to buy XP, after support for XP has ended?
Well, that's just it. Support isn't ending. It's been extended... yet again... for the life of Windows 7.


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For the love of god, please don't connect those machines to the Internet!
heh. Just don't use IE and that solves 95% of the malware right there.

 

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Originally Posted by je_saist View Post
Well, that's just it. Support isn't ending. It's been extended... yet again... for the life of Windows 7.
According to the article: This extended availability also does not appear to impact the support schedule for the old operating system; Windows XP support is due to expire in April 2014. So not only will the operating system be unlikely to work, it will be insecure, too.


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heh. Just don't use IE and that solves 95% of the malware right there.
And upgrade Firefox past 2.0.


(yes, the last IT department I dealt with didn't understand why that'd be a problem...)

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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!

 

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Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight View Post
According to the article: This extended availability also does not appear to impact the support schedule for the old operating system; Windows XP support is due to expire in April 2014. So not only will the operating system be unlikely to work, it will be insecure, too.
Given that Microsoft had already firmly stated, beyond a shadow of a doubt, with no misgivings, and no chance of any change, that Windows Xp was going to be terminated with no other recourse in October 2010...

and now that they've reprieved it YET AGAIN, I'm seriously going to take any date they give for future endings of support / termination with a barrel of salt. I'm going to have so much salt on hand, Slugs will be talking about the plotted "Great Slug Massacre" for years.

Okay, I'll concede that maybe, just maybe, Microsoft is actually going to stick to their word, and they really will stop supporting NT5 in 2014. I just... I wouldn't count on it.

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And upgrade Firefox past 2.0.


(yes, the last IT department I dealt with didn't understand why that'd be a problem...)
what, keeping ALL programs up to date, or just keeping FireFox up to date?