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Microsoft support for Windows 98, ME, ended in July

Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) and Windows Millennium Edition (ME) are almost at the end of their support from Microsoft Corporation.

Software vendor will stop supporting these editions of the operating system on the 11, according to the information on its website.

On this day will be suspended from all public and technical support for products and Microsoft will also be the end of the security update for the operating systems, the company said. However, online self-help support will be available on the Microsoft support Web site at least until 11. July 2007.

Microsoft’s operating systems are “obsolete” and represent a security risk for customers and, therefore, ends support for them, according to its Web site. Microsoft recommends that customers still running is an upgrade to a newer version of Windows, such as Windows, as soon as possible.

Microsoft originally planned cessation of support for Windows 98, and ME in January of 2004, but was extended to 30. June 2006. In January, announced that the final support would be 11. July to allow for any security patch.

Windows 98 and ME are less likely to be located in the business than on home computers. As of December 2005 JupiterResearch survey nearly 2,300 PC customers, 16% of the Windows 98 or 98 SE in their homes and 6% was Windows ME.

Microsoft has recently shifted to the consumer Edition of another significant update to the Windows, Windows Vista, until January 2007. Jupitermedia analyst, said Joe Wilcox and that customers still running Windows 98 or me, you must upgrade the July is likely to move to Windows and renunciation, upgrade to Vista after his release in January. This raises concerns about the company Microsoft, which is still the people to upgrade as quickly as they want, “he said.

Source: IDG News Service

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Just a day before Microsoft reduces the support for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2), the company announced on Monday that people use certain versions of Windows 7 may “downgrade” to the age of the operating system for up to 10 years.

This step is highly unusual. In the past has ended Microsoft downgrade rights – which allow customers to replace the older Edition of the newer version of Windows without paying for two copies — in the months since the introduction of the new OS.

Few consumers may downgrade from Windows 7 XP – unlike many rebelled against Vista three years ago, businesses often want to standardize on a single operating system to simplify management of your computer.

Monday’s announcement was the second Windows XP to reduce the spread of rights. Microsoft originally restricted Windows 7 Windows XP auctions for six months after the release of Windows 7, but searching in June 2009 after an analyst at Gartner Research plan “real chaos.”

Instead, Microsoft later said that it would allow the auctions to Windows XP within 18 months after October 2009 debut, Windows 7, or until the release of Windows 7 SP1.

In either scenario, the law on the transition to an older version of XP would have ended sometime in 2011, perhaps already in April.

On Monday, Microsoft changed its mind. Users of Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate will now be able to reduce the system to Windows XP Professional during the whole life cycle of Windows 7.

“Our business customers tell us that removing the rating of the rights of end users on Windows XP Professional can be confusing,” said Microsoft spokesman Brandon LeBlanc, in the entry on the blog of the company.

In Windows 7 Professional will not fully retire until January 2020; Ultimate edition will be put out to pasture, five years earlier, in January 2015.

Note: 74% of the commercial computer running XP, the move is further evidence that this is a OS that won’t die.

Source: Computerworld

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