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: Microsoft has issued a reminder this week that it will stop
: providing support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2
: on July 13, 2010. After this date, public support for these
: products ends and Microsoft will no longer provide any assisted
: support or security updates. On the same day, Windows 2000
: Server will move out of Extended Support while Windows Server
: 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 will move from Mainstream
: Support to Extended Support, which will end on July 14, 2015.
: For most of its software, Microsoft provides Mainstream Support,
: followed by Extended Support, and finishes with just Self-Help
: Online Support.
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: For Windows XP SP2, users are encouraged to move to Windows 7,
: Windows Vista, or simply Windows XP Service Pack 3, for which
: support will end two years after the next service pack (likely
: not happening) or at the end of the product's supported
: lifecycle, whichever comes first. Microsoft retired Mainstream
: Support for Windows XP on April 14, 2009, but Extended Support
: won't be retired until April 8, 2014. These dates affect all
: versions of XP (except for Embedded): Home Edition, Media Center
: Edition 2002, Media Center Edition 2004, Media Center Edition
: 2005, Professional, Professional x64 Edition, Tablet PC Edition,
: and Tablet PC Edition 2005. Support for SP1 was retired on
: October 10, 2006.
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