“All support for Windows XP and Office 2003 will end in two years as of this past Sunday. Mainstream support for two other entities ends this week however. Mainstream support for Windows Vista will end on Tuesday 10th April, and for Office 2007 ends today.” You should be using Windows 7 anyway.
Most users probably already upgraded to Windows XP or to Windows 7. Especially the readers on osnews 🙂
I love this kind of remarks… are you going to pay for the upgrade? Because I have a couple of machines running Vista and they work just fine, thank you very much.
I agree. Also I suggest “You should be using Haiku/Aros/BSD/Linux/other OS” anyway.
One of my brothers is running Windows Vista. The other bought his PC later and is running 7. The brother on Vista sees so little difference between Vista and 7 that he forgets 7 exists as a separate entity.
I actually had to remind him of its existence when, in response to Windows 8 previews, he said “I guess I’ll be upgrading to Linux some day then”. (He does envy Ubuntu for various aspects of the Compiz+Unity combination, but he’s a gamer first and foremost and most of his games are owned via Steam, so that statement is fairly telling)
I’m sure he’d take a free Win7 upgrade, but if he’s any indication of the average user, there just isn’t much impetus to upgrade to Win7 if you’re used to WinVista and have a legitimate OEM license to it.
Well have him start buying games via Desura, they are running a similar model to Steam, but support Linux and Windows with talk of support for OS X, which is more then can be said for Steam at the moment. Theres also Wine + http://www.playonlinux.com/ to get some of his Windows titles running.
… I’m counting them and still have fingers to spare.
I still run Office 2007 simply because I cannot afford the upgrade to 2010. My dad still prefers Office 2003. Sucks that they are ending support for such good software.
Too bad Open/Libre/whatever Office isn’t up to the same quality as Microsoft’s version. Nobody would have ever switched that that ribbon interface if a simple fork could have kept the security patches in the old UI.
Given their dates of introduction, this means MS gives you about a 5 year lifespan for Vista and Office 2007.
Talk about planned obsolescence!
The value just isn’t there when amortized across such a brief period. Imagine if MS sold you your car … “Hey, it’s been five years so now we’re going to force you to buy a new one.”
Hard to believe people put up with it. Yet here in the US, you hardly have a choice. The great majority of all new computers come with Windows bundled, whether you want it or not.
Extended support for Vista will end on 2017, almost an eleven-year run. No one is forcing you to upgrade. What on earth are you talking about?
That should tell you something about the quality of the so-called alternatives.