i heard that MS no longer support xp in june 2008 or it's just a rummor correct me if i'm wrong
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i heard that MS no longer support xp in june 2008 or it's just a rummor correct me if i'm wrong
100% definitely not true. They havent even officially released there SP3 for XP there's no way they'd end support of the product.
Win98 was July 2006 : http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean18Quote:
Originally Posted by danielkh
I know because I just rebuilt my Win98SE carpc.
Ah, what you heard was OEM availability. (Direct OEM and Retail License Availability (end date)) June 30th, 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx
Don't think that has anything to do with support as they are about to release SP3 (already in pre-release. I have it! :))
lol...how did that run before it died? 98SE was a great OS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Withey
Was? Still is? Hence why I'm rebuilding with the same OS.Quote:
Originally Posted by danielkh
It runs great. My original install had a 22Mb windows zip file uncompressed to ramdrive and booted from there (17 seconds from power to music).
Just rebuilding it with DirectX8 (instead of 9 - better for my video drivers) and Ogg support. In the process of stripping all the rubbish out to make it small again. All going on an 8Gb flash disk-on-module - no hard drive any more.
My setup that died in 2005 was DOS 6...!
Excellent!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Withey
XP lifespan has been extended to 2014.