ND22 Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 Finally we may rejoice!! I also found Vista to be better at security than 7!
ppgrainbow Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 You probably haven't heard about this, but Microsoft has quietly extended consumer support for both Windows Vista and Windows 7 for five more years!
MagicAndre1981 Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 no, MS only updated the support pages because they were confusing and didn't show that also home editions get security updates when products are in extended support.
ppgrainbow Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 no, MS only updated the support pages because they were confusing and didn't show that also home editions get security updates when products are in extended support.Really? I didn't know that by now.
JorgeA Posted February 21, 2012 Author Posted February 21, 2012 no, MS only updated the support pages because they were confusing and didn't show that also home editions get security updates when products are in extended support.Really? I didn't know that by now.Yeah, I didn't know that either. Reading the support page one sure got the impression that, as of April, Vista Home editions would be pretty much abandoned.Anyway, this is a big relief.--JorgeA
MagicAndre1981 Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 Reading the support page one sure got the impression that, as of April, Vista Home editions would be pretty much abandoned.I think that's why MS changed it. But the time was not a good idea. Now some users think MS doesn't believe in Windows 8 MS has the talent make easy things complicated and this results in bad press :lol:
CoffeeFiend Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 Now some users think MS doesn't believe in Windows 8 Hey, MS wouldn't be alone not to believe in Win 8 Personally, I'd rather pay the price of a Win8 license for another 10 years of continued support for Win7 x64... if only they would let us As for Win8, unless they end up letting us disable Metro (we'll see for sure in a week's time), I wouldn't upgrade to it even if it was a free upgrade.
JorgeA Posted February 22, 2012 Author Posted February 22, 2012 As for Win8, unless they end up letting us disable Metro (we'll see for sure in a week's time), I wouldn't upgrade to it even if it was a free upgrade.CoffeeFiend,Yeah, they'd have to pay ME for the time I'd be wasting on the extra clicks needed to get so many useful things done.--JorgeA
UltimateSilence Posted February 24, 2012 Posted February 24, 2012 I am assuming that mainstream Windows Vista SP2 support will end in April of this year? However, this article states...Prior to this change in policy, Mainstream Support for Windows Vista would have run out in April of this year. Support for all users has now been extended through to 2017. Windows 7 was originally looking at a Mainstream Support end-date of 2015.I am hoping it is true. Vista deserves longer mainstream support...
MagicAndre1981 Posted February 24, 2012 Posted February 24, 2012 no, both don't get a longer mainstream support. All those articles are wrong. MS never extended the support, they only updated to website to show that also home editions get updates because most users incorrectly assumed that they no longer get security fixes.
JorgeA Posted February 28, 2012 Author Posted February 28, 2012 I just found this article from 2007. It looks like MS may originally have intended to cut off Vista in 2012, including security updates.--JorgeA
erpdude8 Posted October 22, 2012 Posted October 22, 2012 I just found this article from 2007. It looks like MS may originally have intended to cut off Vista in 2012, including security updates.--JorgeAalthough that might have been an overreaction by some who think MS will end Vista support that soon.Microsoft is still providing new security patches for Vista until April 2017 as long as Vista users have SP2 installed on their machines.
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