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January 25, 2007 at 08:19 AM
danlm

Microsoft extends service on Windows XP

by danlm . Updated 18 years, 11 months ago

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16805062/

[i]On Wednesday, however, Microsoft said consumers who still have Windows XP running after April 2009 will be entitled to five more years of “extended support.”

In the extended plan, consumers will still get security fixes, but instead of free service from the Microsoft help desk, they will have to pay for most assistance.[/i]

Is this recognition by MS that people don’t want to move to Vista, and MS decided to make some money on it? Or, is this MS forcing the migration to Vista by charging?

[i]Edited to add: [/i]Besides the fact that MicroSoft website sucks, I couldn’t find anything on their site to back up this story. But, considering MSNBC is owned by Microsoft. I guess they should know.

Dan

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