[sastre06]

Hi there, I have heard this rumor from my classmate, he said that WinXP will not be updating anymore, because the Microsoft company will not release this OS anymore.
Is it true??

[BigAnt]

They will phase it out as they do always, but will most likely be after win 7 is finished.

[no2pencil]

A recent trend that Microsoft has started is that they will comment that they are going to stop "supporting" an OS. The idea behind this is to push companies that pay for support to upgrade to the newest product. Then Microsoft will release some numbers in a report & say that "Due to current numbers, we will now extend support to date X". They did this with Windows 2000, & it looks like they will continue to do this with XP.

[TMKCodes]

What i know MS will do updates to their OS for 8 years.

[fountainoftruth]

They'll keep updating it at least until after Windows 7 is released. Too many are still using XP.

[TMKCodes]

Well win7 release is not that far, Win7 prebeta was already pretty stable.

[no2pencil]

TMKCodes, on 22 Mar, 2009 - 03:52 AM, said:

Well win7 release is not that far

Uhm... to be fair, how long was Vista in development prior to release? I believe it was even called Long Horn for like 2 years. Not far off is way to general of a term for Microsoft

In other words, I wouldn't hold my breath.

[TMKCodes]

Well i'm not holding my breath, but for seeing how fast they released beta after prebeta was pretty fast. I'm not going for win7 i'm stuck on linuxes.