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Posted by Roger Abell on June 30, 2005, 11:22 am
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http://microsoft.com/lifecycle
is your definitive source for this type of information.
The general rule is SP support is for one year after release of
next SP, unless extended or unless terminated due to end of
support of the base product serviced, but MS reserves the
right to provide additional support beyond this on a case by
case basis solely at its disgression.
For XP Sp1 the present announced timeline is
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean9
that it will end Sept. 17, 2006 which you will notice is
increased beyond the one year minimum.
--
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
> Hello,
>
> I was just wondering if anyone could tell me how long Microsoft is likely
to
> be issuing critical patches for XP SP1? I know SP2 is the eventual cure,
but
> it's not yet been approved by some (many?) IT teams, so it'd be good to
know
> how long corporates have to get themseves organised...
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
> --
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