Microsoft is on 13.07.2010 Support for the operating system Windows XP SP2. With Windows Vista without SP's support is already on 13.04.2010 expired. If you use these versions can be obtained from that time no more security update from Microsoft.

Now it is important always to be on the current service pack level! Service packs are obtainable through the Windows Update function.

On the following dates running from the support for PCs running Windows XP and Windows Vista without the latest service pack:

• Support for Windows Vista without the service pack was on 13.04.2010 set. In order to continue to receive support, you should have installed the Windows Vista SP2.

• The support for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) ends at 13.07.2010. In order to get support should continue to be the Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) have installed.

For Windows XP 64bit, there is no SP3. The latest Service Pack is the version 2. Once you install the SP2 receives support to 08.04.2014.

The support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows 2000 runs on 13. July 2010 from, Support for Windows Vista RTM on 13. April 2010. It should be taken to ensure that the service pack for Windows Vista 1 or 2 installed. When Windows XP is required for the support case, the SP3. Windows 2000 is from 13.07.2010 not Supportet. Therefore, a migration to Windows 7 Recommended by Microsoft.

In a Blog Entry has Microsoft manager Brandon LeBlanc announced, that the mode for Windows XP 7 done is (RTM, Release to manufacturing). Users are on it 22. October in Microsoft's Download Center to. Currently, Microsoft offers even the Release Candidate an.

The XP mode is meant, Windows 7 XP-incompatible programs on a virtualizer but to harness. It consists of two parts. virtualizer the Virtual PC and virtual machine (World), in a Windows XP with Service Pack 3 installed. The two parcels together are approximately 470 MB download.

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