XP had general avalibility in October 25, 2001, so almost 12 years ago now Apple goes all the way back to 10.5 http://www.apple.com/support/mac/ Which was released on 26 October 2007
And redhat only goes back 10 years: (7 years for 3 and 4 unless you pay extra) https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Greg Sevart <ad...@xfury.net> wrote: > You cannot run an in-place upgrade from x86 to x64 on any Windows OS. > > XP was released 11 years ago. At the time extended support stops, they'll > have released 4 new versions (Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1) since XP was first GA. > I > think that's plenty long (too long) to support a client OS without > comparing > them to the Borg. > > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com > [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5 > Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 9:44 AM > To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] dumb question > > I agree completely but for a business customer, built 4 systems, PURCHASED > the SW and he is getting WGA messages on two of them. Not had a change to > get there and see what is up with that. > There are a lot of PPL and businesses I believe will be using XP for a long > time to come, I guess as with the Borg and MS resistance is futile ! But it > costs money and a lot of ppl do not have a lot a loose change these days. > Computers OS's are low priority to most. > > I am going to suggest to them that now may be a good time to froggy hop to > W7. I'll try to explain the security issues to them. Not sure if all their > SW is compatible or not. Dread doing 4 clean installs, last time did ONE > and > cloned the rest and changed the keys and the network ID's, identical HW on > all 4. > > thanks > fp > > At 07:33 AM 8/23/2013, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: > > >Don't think so. They are completely different code bases. Besides, > >should be moving off XP anyways. Next April Microsoft stops issuing > >security patches for XP forever. It's basically open season on > >anything running XP after that. > > > > > > > >--------- > >Brian > > Date: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 > > ***Caution, Tagline Below *** > **Tallyho** > ****************************************** > You can't judge Egypt by Aida. > ****************************************** > > > > > > > > > > > > >
