No More Service Packs for Windows XP

[starforce]

Microsoft is not releasing any additional service packs for all versions of Windows XP.

Looks like an era is coming to an end, as Microsoft is now shifting its focus away from supporting old-timer Windows XP on a service pack level, and looking at the hot new chick in town, the sexy Windows 7. According to Softpedia, SP3 was the last service pack for the 32-bit version of Windows XP (x86); SP2 was the last major update for the 64-bit version (x64). Microsoft officially announced the end of the road for the 32-bit version some time ago, but there was hope that the company would puke up another service pack for x64 XP before the OS headed out to the pasture.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case. If fact, Microsoft confirmed its legal separation from Windows XP on a whole, admitting that it's fallen out of love and will never return again, even in the case of x64 XP. "We have received inquiries from our customers and partners on whether or not there will be a need for a Service Pack 3 for Windows Server 2003," said Crissy House, the Windows Server Operations manager. "Microsoft will not have a SP3 release for Windows Server 2003."

In the past, Microsoft has delivered service packs for the 64-bit version of Windows XP and major updates to Server 2003 at the same time, hence the assumption that the same cut-off date applied to x64. While the comment from House refers to Windows Server 2003, a spokesman for Microsoft told Softpedia that the divorce also applies to any version of Windows XP.

Thanks for the memories, you were a good OS.

Source : Tom's Hardware US
No More Service Packs for Windows XP - Tom's Hardware
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starforce

[anon]

7 is the future

And on 2014 XP will be left totally unsupported.

[starforce]

lol This is good news for hackers

[SBfreak]

lol This is good news for hackers

Not quite.They'll start ignoring XP and move on like the rest of windows users to 7

[anon]

Not all of them... there's still people using Windows 98, for example. (Which can fit in 5MB. Now that's lightweight!)

[thecoolest]

lol..that gonna be sux..coz xp is the best microsoft windows software ever made....works grt...install grt..any windows software will not be as famous as windows xp ever as i think...

[SealLion]

ya, I kinda have to agree with that.
XP was, IMHO, a great piece of an OS.

I'll most likely keep using XP for quite some time. It doesn't matter to me that XP will no longer be suported. I've read that quite a number of times elsewhere on the internet.

That doesn't mean that all of a sudden it's gonna fail and blow up in a millioin pieces.

It'll still work just fine.

I've skinned XP with XP-setup-Pro and XPLite. Some things have worked out pretty good using either of them.

I guess you could sum it up this way, though: There's someone else who holds the crown now over at MS.
But that doesn't mean that the XP is dead. Far from it.

I've read numerous times about people that are die-hard XP users and refuse to give it up. Ok....well, what-ever.

Maybe I"m one of 'em. .....at least for awhile.

[Blocker]

XP in a few months will be in the past why should I care for more service packs!

Windows 7 is just better than Vista and XP

[DriftKing]

service pack 3 is enough at this time. Windows 7 has a bright future