[pchelpers] Re: Back to the drawing board

Hi Ekhart,

Sunday, April 24, 2005, 3:50:07 PM, you wrote:

EGlnl> You will be forced to install SP2 soon because soon Windows
EGlnl> Update will no longer work unless you have SP2 installed.

>> Can you find an official statement on this? Microsoft's official
>> position is to support the current (SP2 in this case) and previous
>> (SP1) service pack for their software. I've heard people talking
>> about pre-SP2 no longer being supported by WindowsUpdate, but I've
>> never seen an official announcement to this effect, either from
>> Microsoft or a news source that seems fairly reputable.

EGlnl> http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy

EGlnl> Support may be extended to 24 months for those service packs
EGlnl> where Microsoft believes customers will need additional time
EGlnl> for testing and deployment. For example, Microsoft Windows XP
EGlnl> Service Pack 1 (SP1) will receive 24 months of support after
EGlnl> Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) is released.

That's for support. I'm quite certain that they have different
criteria for security and critical patches. Note that they are still
offering new critical and security patches for Win98, via
WindowsUpdate.

-- 
Scott.




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