2006-12-15 04:48:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
yeah i think the same atleast for 5 o 6 more 'cause the vista is to powerful for the machines today dates i mean you have to have a pretty good machine to run it with of the graphic thing, so i think yeah until the price of cumputer go a little down 'cause there's new tech coming out and everything is cheap take the example the pentium D when the dou core came out ufff that one was down as %@%@..
2006-12-15 04:55:25 · answer #1 · answered by MaxTunk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will have to support XP for quite a long time (my guess is 5-7 years) because most PC's that people own are not Vista compatible.
Those people would have to go out and buy a new machine - why do that if your current machine is perfectly capable of doing the things that you want it to do.
I feel that Microsoft have been a bit over ambitious with this release - time will tell.
Apple have released an upgraded system every year for the past 3 years, without the need to upgrade hardware.
JJ
2006-12-15 04:57:04 · answer #2 · answered by J J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Microsoft's Policy has always been to support the Current two operating systems. Soon after XP came out, they stopped supporting Win98 because there was XP and 2000. My guess would be that shortly after Vista comes out then 2000 will lose support. XP is going to be around for a very long time regardless.
Hope this helps...
2006-12-15 04:56:07 · answer #3 · answered by Country 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some human beings will inform you at the moment that till you've XP SP3 there isn't any help or updates. that's somewhat some distance from being authentic. I somewhat have a pc workstation the following on my artwork bench that's 8 years old and had no longer been used for years. i began attempting to get it lower back going. It had abode windows XP SP1 and IE 6 after about 80 updates it now has abode windows XP SP3 and IE 8 and runs miraculous. So i imagine abode windows XP will be round for a lengthy time period.
2016-11-26 21:12:54 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows XP does not offer support. Microsoft offers support for Windows XP. Visit Microsoft's product Lifecycle website:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&x=12&y=11
For Windows 98, ME, and XP SP1 (specifically):
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/support/endofsupport.mspx
2006-12-15 04:56:56 · answer #5 · answered by Shawn H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably a good 6 years atleast.
They just stopped making patches for Windows 98 like a few months ago.... So that might be what they'll do for XP.
2006-12-15 04:50:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your PC will be well obsolete by that time. Of course, I know some dire hards that cling to NT still.
There are a LOT of PC's that can in no way run Vista...so it will be many years they will offer XP support I imagine.
2006-12-15 04:51:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A few years but the will stop stuff like windows 98 and stuff like that
2006-12-15 04:51:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the past practice of Microsoft is any indication, about 2.5 years. Then they will end updates for the OS. What a shame.
2006-12-15 04:51:36 · answer #9 · answered by Richard C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not that very long because vista will shutdown xp system
2006-12-15 04:51:54 · answer #10 · answered by jeffrey l 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋