How many operating systems still receive security patches 12 and a half years
after their release? Yeah, looks like everything is possible!
InformationWeek reports that Microsoft will continue to update Windows XP
with security patches "and other critical updates" all the way until April 2014.
To put things in perspective, Windows 95 will be 13 years old in a couple of
months. Windows XP is somewhat of a special case, though: Microsoft didn't
release a successor until five years after its launch, and the company plans to
keep selling XP to low-cost subnotebook makers until at least 2010. In the
letter, Veghte reportedly told customers, "Our ongoing support for Windows XP is
the result of our recognition that people keep their Windows-based PCs for many
years."
It's definitely good news since most my customers plan to keep Windows XP as
long as possible.
