Support Ends For Slew Of Service Packs

April 14: Support Ends For Slew Of Service Packs

Next Tuesday, Redmond no longer offer mainstream support for a bunch of Service Packs flavors, WinXP and W2K3 SP1 among them. They said they will continue to provide free security fixes for XP until 2014. Windows XP still accounts for about 63 percent of all Internet-connected computers, according to March 2009 statistics from Hitslink, while Windows Vista makes up about 24 percent. Here are the Hitslink market share numbers.
http://www.wservernews.com/GWS3XW/090413-Market-Share

Support for WinXP Service Pack 2 is until July 13, 2010. Existing XP users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest Service Pack 3. More about this at the "Windows Service Pack Road Map" at Microsoft:
http://www.wservernews.com/GWS3XW/090413-Road-Map

Following is (I think) a complete list of products and versions where the support will end on April 14, 2009, but I will add the link to Microsoft's official page at the end of the list, as it has hundreds more SKU's there:

* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 0
* Windows Server 2003 R2 Service Pack 0
* Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
* Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86) Service Pack 0
* Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition Service Pack 0
* Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86) Service Pack 0
* Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition Service Pack 0
* Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86) Service Pack 0
* Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition Service Pack 0
* Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86) Service Pack 1
* Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for Itanium-Based Systems SP 1
* Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition Service Pack 0
* Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86) Service Pack 1
* Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems SP 1
* Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition Service Pack 0
* Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86) Service Pack 1
* Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition Service Pack 0
* Windows Server 2003, Web Edition Service Pack 1
* System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 0

Here is the full list:
http://www.wservernews.com/GWS3XW/090413-Lifecycle

However, just this week some news came up via a leaked HP memo that Microsoft might give XP a reprieve until April 2010. Here is the scoop in ComputerWorld:
http://www.wservernews.com/GWS3XW/090413-Windows7-Upgrades