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Today, Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 is the day that Microsoft is ending
the mainstream support for Windows Vista after five years of its
release, and for
Microsoft Office 2007. However, because Windows XP still a big player in the
operating system world, all support is set to be terminated in about two years, together with
Microsoft Office 2003.
As reported by Ars Technica, the software giant has two stages for the
support lifecycle of its products:
- Mainstream: The product gets all sorts of updates, security, stability, fixes, and seldom features.
- Extended: The product only gets security updates and business have to pay for bug fixes.
This means that Windows XP and Microsoft
Office 2003 are in the Extended lifecycle until the end of 2014.
Windows Vista
and Microsoft Office 2007 on the other hand has just joined the
Extended stage and their limited support are set to be terminated in
early 2017.
For more information, you can visit
Microsoft’s lifecycle web page.
Source :- www.pureinfotech.com
