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Microsoft Windows XP will be announced in mid-this year on June 30 at the end, including the retail version and the version OEM manufacturers, many consumers are concerned about whether the termination of service sales and no longer available. According to Micrsoft, Windows XP stop shipments and sales, Microsoft will continue to provide security, including repair and upgrades, and technical support services to the mainstream of April 14, 2009, and extended support to provide paid on April 8, 2014 only.

It is understood that the general desktop PC and mobile PCs installed Windows XP operating system, including Home Edition, Professional, Professional x64, and Table PC Edition MCE version, retail and OEM version will be available June 30, 2008 to stop sales and shipments , COEM (Random version) will be January 31, 2009 to stop shipments, but stopped shipments and sales support services will not be affected, Microsoft will continue to provide security, including repair and upgrades, and technical support services to the mainstream in 2009 April 14, and to provide paid extended support to April 8, 2014 only.

Mainstream technical support services, including major incident support (free of charge incident support, paid incident support, paid time support, warranty statement support), security update support, can request non-security products code patches, so users can at any time update. Microsoft advises users to install the latest Service Pack, and so continued to enjoy mainstream support services.

Windows XP, will be converted into mainstream support extended support, Microsoft will continue to provide free patches and security of the Windows XP five years to pay support to the validity of April 8, 2014, contains the main content : pay support, and free security update support, non-security-related product code patch support, but must pay a registered “extended product code patch support programme” and may be required for each product code patches pay fee.

Microsoft will retain part of the original team responsible for the preparation of the problems encountered by users, in case of a major security threat, will be launched patches, but no longer provide warranty support, design changes or new features such as service .

There are many reports about the next-generation operating system, Windows 7 of the relevant reports, Microsoft said that Windows beta version 7 and listing date is not yet established, the community reported various time-to-market is hearsay was not officially confirmed.