Microsoft To Drop Support For SP1

Published on August 31, 2006 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

On Oct. 10 Microsoft will drop support for SP1 on Windows XP. After that date no more security updates or hotfixes will be available for SP1. Users will need to upgrade to SP2 if they want to use incident support as well.

Oct. 10 is "patch Tuesday", and that will be the last day any fixes for SP1 will ship.

Comments

seldomseen

on Aug 31, 2006

[the dogs...]

Feel like I'm (almost) being pushed...even tho I've got SP2, it's still rude. Economics, I realize, but still grumps me up.

Excalpius

on Aug 31, 2006

it's not economics as much as anyone who ISN'T running SP2 is just insane at this point. the security fixes alone are worth it and to be honest, my system under SP2 runs the way XP should have out of the box.

Phoon

on Aug 31, 2006

Feel like I'm (almost) being pushed...even tho I've got SP2, it's still rude. Economics, I realize, but still grumps me up.

There are just soooo many things wrong with that statement.. I think Excalpius said it nicely though.

DesignCaddy

on Aug 31, 2006

sp2 is free. they'll even mail it to you free. No reason not to push people to update.

Life is a Game

on Sep 01, 2006

SP1? does anyone at all stil has SP1 installed???

Urgo

on Sep 01, 2006

Good move better to focus and improve if possibly sp2

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