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April 2008 - Posts

Friday, April 25, 2008 3:56 PM

What’s happening to Windows XP on June 30th?

I want to take another break from the discussion of the overall Support Lifecycle policies to address some common confusion that we’ve been hearing regarding the support dates for Windows XP. Recently, there have been a number of posts in the blogosphere
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:31 AM

End of Support for Visual Basic 6.0

I wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that public support for Visual Basic 6 came to an end on April 8th, 2008 . If you already subscribe to our quarterly newsletter you probably already know the details behind this. If not, here is a quick explanation
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Friday, April 11, 2008 6:25 PM

What is Extended Hotfix Support?

As I mentioned in an earlier posting, during the Extended Support phase we no longer provide non-security hotfixes without enrollment in the Extended Hotfix Support program. Simply put, the Extended Hotfix Support program provides the ability to request
Posted by Jared Proudfoot | 1 Comments
Friday, April 04, 2008 1:33 PM

Why do we end support on the second Tuesday at the end of a quarter?

Until January 2006, support for products used to expire on the anniversary date of their general availability. This meant that if a product was released on December 1, then it would also expire on December 1st - 5 or 10 years later. We received a lot
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