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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Connecting to the internet in with Windows XP. Thread starter Decryptor Start date May 4, Joined May 2, Messages 0. Also i would like to know what web browser if any is the safest to use, this is for my retro gaming computer, although it will not be used for internet, it will be beneficial to be able to connect to the internet.
Fouquin Supporter. Joined May 30, Messages 1, 0. Not sure how much longer that's going to last though. How could I have missed this? Here's the short version: ComputerWorld missed a few important details in its calculations and thus reached the wrong conclusion.
Yes, Microsoft is extending downgrade rights for Windows XP. In fact, by my calculations XP will be officially and completely out of all sales channels in early Microsoft makes it easy to get confused with licensing issues, and the topics under discussion are ones I've written a lot about here in the past. I've already explained how downgrade rights work , and I decoded Microsoft's published support lifecycle for the business versions of Windows back in How long will Microsoft support XP and Vista?
If the rest of this post gets confusing, it might help to read either or both of those explainers. Here's what Microsoft announced yesterday, in a post that looked like it was very heavily vetted by lawyers. I've highlighted a few key phrases:. This will help maintain consistency for downgrade rights throughout the Windows 7 lifecycle. Going forward, businesses can continue to purchase new PCs and utilize end user downgrade rights to Windows XP or Windows Vista until they are ready to use Windows 7.
Enabling such rights throughout the Windows 7 lifecycle will make it easier for customers as they plan deployments to Windows 7. In the interest of providing more consistency and predictability with how we manage the Windows lifecycle, we are confirming our current policy of allowing retailers to sell the boxed version of the previous OS for up to 1 year after release of a new OS, and that OEMs can sell PCs with the previous OS pre-loaded for up to 2 years after, the launch date of the new OS.
This means that since Windows 7 launched on October 22, , retailers will be able to sell the boxed version of Windows Vista until October 22, , and OEMs will be able to sell PCs with Windows Vista preinstalled until October 22, I also recommend checking out this blog post regarding Windows XP end-of-sales and end-of-support deadlines.
Where ComputerWorld and Gizmodo and many others who've written about this have stumbled is by confusing the technical support lifecycle with the sales lifecycle. Microsoft's technical support lifecycle provides five years of mainstream support for all versions of Windows and five additional years of extended support for business versions of Windows.
So yes, Windows 7 will be officially supported with security updates and bug fixes until the end of , which is ten years after it was released. But here's a much more important support date: April That's when Windows XP SP3 will reach the end of its support lifecycle and Microsoft will no longer distribute security patches for it. Businesses that deploy Windows XP via downgrade rights after April will be deploying an unsupported operating system.
If you exercise those downgrade rights, you're completely on your own. Do you feel lucky? I think I need to do a complete uninstall and reinstall of the program. I doubt that Acronis would make necessary changes so that current builds support XP; Microsoft stopped supporting it many years ago. The best option may be to run XP in a virtual machine.
You would then need to backup the Virtual machine; I understand that there are various ways in which this can be achieved. Microsoft dropped all support for XP back in if I remember correctly, quickly followed by Vista and more recently 7.
Converting XP systems to VMware virtual machines is one option and would allow the host VM folder that stores all the files associated with the VM to be backed up. I use this method myself with my own VMware VM's. Authored on. Order Asc Desc. Date within - Any - 1 day 3 days 1 week 2 weeks 1 month 2 months 6 months 1 year. Thread needs solution.
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