Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. Please go here to search for your product's lifecycle. The following list represents products retiring or reaching the end of support in Upon retirement or end of support, there will be no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates.
Go here to learn about Fixed and Modern Lifecycle policies and service packs. If you have any questions regarding support for a product, please contact your Microsoft Account Representative. If you need technical support, visit the Microsoft Support website. The following products, governed by the Modern Policy , will retire in The following product releases, governed by the Modern Policy , will end support in Five years after that date is October 22, The next calendar quarter begins in January, , and the second Tuesday of that month is January So, that's when mainstream support is scheduled to end.
Extended support for business all editions goes an extra five years, until January 14, the second Tuesday of the month. To find XP's end-of-support date, you should use the Microsoft Product Lifecycle Search page to get the official answer. Enter the name of the OS and click Search, and you get back a table that shows the general availability date, the retirement dates for mainstream and extended support, and retirement dates for service packs, which are governed by a separate set of rules.
Here's the set of search results for Windows XP :. Service Packs 1 and 1a were retired back in Service Pack 2 rode off into the sunset last month, on July By that time, Windows 8 will probably be well past its first birthday, and Microsoft will at least for a short time be supporting four separate Windows versions. Here's a table that summarizes the support policy for all of the current Windows desktop versions. Update: As of February , Microsoft has changed its support lifecycle so that consumer and business versions have the same extended support options.
SO ignore the "Not applicable" text in this table. The dates for business editions are the same as for consumer editions. The point of having a predictable release cycle—a new Windows version every three years—is to encourage upgrades. That's especially true for consumers, who can skip one version but not two. Even so, full support will be available until the beginning of For businesses, anyone considering a Windows 7 migration can take comfort in knowing it will be supported for nearly another decade more—until January 14, For the answer, I defer to the Microsoft Support Lifecycle blog :.
Also, do you know when the SP3 editions will be available? The dilemma I have, apart from price, which does figure, is that I have a company building my new pc right now and I have to tell them probably today what OS I want them to install. They only offer an OEM version.
Drat, bad timing, should have waited a while! Let me know what you think asap cos I have to talk to the company about my decision. Struggling artist. Posted 26 February - PM. I guess my choice of "robust" really intended to mean that it does everything that XP can do while "Home" is considerably more limited. Neil Jones Member 5k Member 8, posts. What sort of an argument is that? If you need Domain Support, you don't go and buy XP Home, in fact you'd have checked this before you bought it.
More rather it is better having XP Home which is cheaper than having XP Pro which adds a bunch of things that a home user is never going to use anyway. Show me a computer in a typical home that uses a domain server. Dual processor support - you don't need it now we've got dual-core.
Nothing on the previously posted list is essential to a computer that sits in a back bedroom and downloads stuff from the Internet. Why spend twice as much again for a bunch of bits you're probably never going to use and you can bolt them on later with other software anyway? Ztruker Member 5k Technician 7, posts. Neil, one big thing, for me at least, is that Home only allows Simple File Sharing. This means there are files on my computers that I would not be able to access.
This may not be a requirement for all home users but more and more have multiple computers and file sharing has become a necessity. Posted 27 February - AM. Hi guys, Thanks for your views, I think I'm going to stick with xp Home for now as I'm mainly using the pc for design work with photoshop. If I discover I need other things at a later date I'll just have to add them then! Would still like to know if any of you know when xp with sp 3 is going to be available, and until when?
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