Windows xp sp2 end of life

Microsoft never supported this configuration. Yeah, that effects end users, a corporation should be making their own image from their own hardware, so they wouldn't have that mix and match situation.

Not a valid point anyway as the AMD reboot issue was fixed, Symantec's software updated, and really I can't think of anything else that is a problem. It was still official, it was just a rollup instead of a full service pack. Meaning it only contained post-sp4 updates.

Along the same lines of questioning, what does this mean for support of SP3? Search In. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2. Recommended Posts. Posted March 22, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Roger H.

Veteran Posted March 22, Rigby Posted March 22, There's absolutely no reason for a business or anyone else to still be on SP2. Yorak Posted March 22, Raa Posted March 22, I thought XP SP2 support got nixed ages ago? It'd be a stupid idea to extend support for SP2. Get SP3 already. Growled Member Posted March 22, Rigby Posted March 23, Jack Schofield spent the s editing photography magazines before becoming editor of an early UK computer magazine, Practical Computing.

In , he started writing a weekly computer column for the Guardian, and joined the staff to launch the newspaper's weekly computer supplement in The venerable SP2 Service Pack 2 version reaches the end of its life on July 13 , after which there will be no more updates. Malware writers are not going to stop targeting it, but Microsoft is going to stop updating drivers and patching holes, leaving users vulnerable.

The quickest and simplest answer is to install Service Pack 3, and anyone using Windows XP with automatic updates turned on should already have this installed.

This covers the shipping cost from the USA. This requires much more effort, because there is no in-place upgrade from XP: you have to do a clean installation. This approach was, of course, widely recommended as the best option until Microsoft made it compulsory. Moving to Windows 7 also costs more, because SP3 is free. XP users will have to upgrade eventually, because support will end in April Microsoft is sending the appropriate signal by dropping support for XP in the next version of its web browser, IE9, even though this may well lead it to lose more market share to Mozilla Firefox and the fast-growing Google Chrome.

The problem is that it will probably take another four years to upgrade or replace the installed base of up to a billion PCs. Expand your skills.

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