Vista mainstream support

No burial or payment necessary. Back in February, Microsoft formally changed its published support policy for Windows Vista and Windows 7 to match with the way it worked in practice. All consumer and business editions qualify for no-charge, security-related updates throughout the extended support phase, which ends in five years, on April 11, The only non-security-related updates I can find in the past year are language packs for Internet Explorer 9, updates for the Microsoft.

And even then, you might find that non-security-related fixes are actually delivered for Vista. All of the updates I listed in the paragraph above were made available for Windows Server , which ended mainstream support in July The really big date, of course, is April 8, That's when all support for Windows XP, including security-related updates, ends for good.

If you're still using XP, you have a transition plan, right? I've changed the way I charge my iPhone. You should, too. Time for a Linux smartphone? Developers are in short supply.

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Written by Mary Jo Foley , Contributor. Full Bio. Microsoft's Product Lifecycle table for Vista spells this all out for the various versions of Vista: click on the table above to enlarge Mainstream support is the period during which Microsoft provides free and regular updates including both security fixes and other patches for a product. My Profile Log Out.