Microsoft will shortly be moving Windows XP from ‘Mainstream Support’ into ‘Extended Support’.
This means that although users will continue to receive security patches, they will no longer receive patches covering other issues such as stability or driver updates.
Only companies which have specific support contracts with Microsoft will be eligible to receive non-security patches. This will also have an impact on businesses that write their own Windows XP based applications and rely on Microsoft for assistance.
Windows XP will still be sold on some hardware, mostly netbooks which cannot host Vista due to limited budgets and hardware capacity. Users who purchase a netbook with Windows XP installed have to accept that they will not have access to mainstream support.
So now that you are looking at a network full of XP machines and you have just found out that mainstream support is ending, Vista might be an option after all!
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