support lifecycle

Introduction Windows 11 is the latest operating system from Microsoft that aims to provide users with a steady stream of new features and enhancements through continuous innovation. This approach ensures that users receive the latest updates and improvements to their Windows experience...

Windows 10 continues to play a key role in how we learn, live and work during these unique times, and we want to ensure a high quality and reliable experience, while also delivering you the latest innovations. In mid-April, we announced the initial availability of the Windows 10 May 2020 Update...

For the second in this series of blog entries we want to look into which vulnerability reports make it into the monthly release cadence. It may help to start with some history. In September 2003 we made a change from a release anytime approach to a mostly predictable, monthly release cadence...

Why does the platform preview of Internet Explorer 10 refuse to install on Windows Vista? Maybe it’s because Vista’s short, unhappy life will end in less than one year. I help decode the cryptic support lifecycle. More...

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End of support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RTM As we announced in 2008, support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on July 13, 2010. Support for Windows 2000 will end on the same date. Support for Windows Vista Release to Manufacturing (RTM) will end on April 13, 2010...

A year faster than Vista Windows 7 reached the 10 per cent usage milestone, according to beancounters at Web analytics company Net Applications, as the OS has crossed the 10 per cent figure more than a year earlier than Vista. However the gleam of Window's 7 appears to be the only brightness...