Microsoft: Windows XP security updates provided until 2014
After the launch of Microsoft's new operating system, Vista, the previous generation operating system, Windows XP, will cease sales on June 30th this year. Many consumers are worried that Microsoft will no longer provide technical support services for Windows XP in the future. In response to this, Microsoft pointed out that free security updates for Windows XP will continue until 2014, and consumers do not need to worry about their operating system becoming orphaned.
After the release of the new Microsoft operating system, Vista, the previous generation operating system, Windows XP, will stop selling on June 30th this year. Many consumers are concerned that Microsoft will no longer provide technical support services for Windows XP in the future. In response to this, Microsoft stated that free security updates for Windows XP will continue until 2014, and consumers do not need to worry about their operating system becoming orphaned. (Reported by Zhang Dehou) Starting from June 30th this year, Microsoft will terminate the sale of the retail version of Windows XP and stop shipping to OEM manufacturers. After this news was released, many consumers were worried that their currently used Windows XP operating system would become orphaned. Microsoft clarified that although XP will no longer be sold, technical support services will continue, including: incident support (free incident support, paid incident support, pay-per-hour support, warranty statement support), free security update support, free non-security product code patches, etc., which will be provided until April 14th, 2009. From then until April 8th, 2014, Microsoft will still provide incident support and free security updates for XP, but enterprises requesting non-security product code patches will have to pay.
Lai Jianyu, Deputy Manager of Microsoft Product Marketing: "For example, within an enterprise, if there is a request for a non-security product code patch for a specific function of Windows XP, the enterprise must pay. However, we will still provide security updates."
This means that the security update support most relevant to general users will be provided by Microsoft for Windows XP until 2014, so consumers do not need to worry.
In addition, regarding reports about the next-generation Microsoft operating system, Windows 7, after Vista, Microsoft stated that the beta testing and release date of Windows 7 have not yet been determined. Any reported release schedule belongs to rumors.
