Support ends in 2014 for Windows XP and Office 2003

by fibo on 12/14/2013, 10:11 PM with 9 comments
  • by rgbrenner on 12/14/2013, 11:04 PM

    1. why does your title say 'Finally'? It says nothing about the article, I have no idea what to expect on that page before I click on it, and it doesn't match the article title.

    2. what is the news? We've known for years when the EOL for XP is.

  • by chasing on 12/14/2013, 11:32 PM

    From the site:

    "Based on historical customer deployment data, the average enterprise deployment can take 18 to 32 months from business case through full deployment."

    The average is between 1 1/2 and almost 3 years? Sweet Jesus.

  • by vyrotek on 12/14/2013, 11:04 PM

    I was originally excited for this because I thought it would help with the IE problems. Then I learned that some of our corporate customers are now running Windows 7 and their IT had them downgrade to IE 8. Ack.

  • by awestley on 12/14/2013, 11:02 PM

    They should wait for Windows 9 ;)

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  • by TDAnderson on 12/14/2013, 11:09 PM

    It doesn't get any more arrogant than that! "Finally" - really?! While some people in their golden high income cage might be happy about planned obsolescence, many businesses in less well-off places in Latin America and Africa are basically still relying on XP because it works and there's only little budget power.