Thread: MS no longer support XP as of june-2008 is that true?

100% definitely not true. They havent even officially released there SP3 for XP there's no way they'd end support of the product.

Originally Posted by danielkh

I thought it was '98 they were going to quit supporting. Not XP.

Win98 was July 2006 : http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean18
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! )

Originally Posted by Rob Withey

Win98 was July 2006 : http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean18
I know because I just rebuilt my Win98SE carpc.

lol...how did that run before it died? 98SE was a great OS.

Originally Posted by danielkh

lol...how did that run before it died? 98SE was a great OS.

Was? Still is? Hence why I'm rebuilding with the same OS.

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...!

Originally Posted by Rob Withey

Was? Still is? Hence why I'm rebuilding with the same OS.

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!

XP lifespan has been extended to 2014.