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Microsoft: IE 9 will not support Windows XP, period, he sent a strong message that includes a video on the Web site: Windows XP users cannot start the final version of Internet Explorer 9.

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Users of Windows could not start the final version of Internet Explorer 9, under the leadership of the company Microsoft, cutting out ten years old, but still a popular operating system.

Preview of IE9, Windows platform as well as the final version, it is not, in fact, run on something other than the latest Microsoft operating systems. Trying to run the code Preview in Windows XP, you receive the following dialog box: “Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview does not support operating system earlier than Windows Vista SP2.”

And, of course, don’t even think about a version for Windows operating systems. IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch told us that Mac and Linux versions are currently in the plans of the company.

The reason IE9 doesn’t work in XP is that Direct2D uses a feature of DirectX when accessing graphics hardware to accelerate the creation of the image, and drawing. Direct2D was introduced in Windows 7, but then added to the Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2. But not to Windows.

IE9 team about their plans for an older version of the operating system, confirmed that XP wasn’t in the cards.

Note: Windows users can use Firefox, Opera and Chrome as my primary, secondary browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 platform prepared version on Tuesday strong sent the message to the Web programmers, which become safer to use a wide range of standards. But on one standard, Web, video, Microsoft probably one controversial impasse deeper into chaos.

The standard includes a video on the Web site, which does not require plug-ins such as Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight. It is one of the major elements for HTML5 – Hypertext Markup Language standard now under development and the objective is to extend the capabilities of Web pages and Web applications.

Rough version of IE9 that Microsoft includes with HTML5 video revealed coded with a specific technology called h.264. Apple Safari also supports this encoding and decoding technology or codec.

But Mozilla is adamantly opposed to the open source hostile h.264, instead, that supports the Ogg Theora codec opponent and Opera is in the camp with his new version 10.5. Google Chrome supports, tying the score on Ogg Theora, h.264, 3 3.

It is no surprise that Microsoft signed to h.264. Own many patents in the field of technology, which is the holder of the licence on behalf of Microsoft and several other patent holders in a group called MPEG LA. And Microsoft, of course, not a proprietary technology. Support for h.264 is part of Windows 7. Finally, the h.264 most provides a better quality than Ogg Theora.

Source: CNET NEWS/PC Magazine

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Microsoft support for Windows 98, ME, ended in July. Windows messages.

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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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Windows XP downgrade rights extended to the year 2020 by Microsoft: 74% of the commercial computer running XP, this step is further proof that it is the OS that won’t die. Windows messages.

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winXp-logo.jpgJust 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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