When it is clear the support subscriptions will no longer provide enough revenue to sustain the operation, Microsoft should give a one year notice for the termination of the service.
The security software will be expected to deal with most of the minor problems.Ĥ) Microsoft should agree to provide continuing paid support for three years. Microsoft’s support will be limited to keeping XP secure.
Only those paying for support will get the updates, etc.Ģ) All supported workstations must have good security software, running all the time.ģ) There will be no end-user support. And since Microsoft already has to provide this paid support to Canada, why not sell it to anyone else who wants to pay?ġ) Support will be provided only to legitimately licensed workstations. Not all support is gone - did you know that? Microsoft still has to support the Government of Canada’s use of Windows XP. It could go on for years more making good money for Redmond. I think Microsoft hasn’t been especially smart about the way they’ve ended support for XP. Now what’s a loyal XP user to do? Just remember it is the applications that provide the value. Today Microsoft officially ended support for XP. XP is now 12 years old – the same age as my son Channing - and both are a little cranky. There was very little value in upgrading. The applications did everything they needed and the operating system was solid. Since applications provide the real value, Windows XP users had everything they needed.
Why didn’t everyone upgrade to Windows 7? They didn’t need to. It would be another two years before a true successor to XP emerged in Windows 7. Windows Vista was not the market success Microsoft expected. Six years was an impressive accomplishment, but still XP lived on.
It would be almost 6 years until a successor to XP - Windows Vista - hit the market (with a thud). Before XP Microsoft released a new version of its operating system almost every year. Windows XP was the convergence of the best of both. In the years that preceded Windows XP Microsoft incrementally improved the user interface on the Windows 95 side and the reliability and performance on the NT side. One was the descendant of Windows 95 the other of Window NT. Over the years operating systems improved.īefore Windows XP Microsoft had two PC operating systems. Companies wanted their business applications to be more reliable. The developers of applications had to code around problems. Before Windows XP many PC operating systems were not very good. It may be hard to believe but there was a time when people looked forward to new versions of operating systems.