Springboard Series Blog - All Comments

stephenlrose — Sun, 19 May 2013 22:11:49 GMT

KamusDancer,

Driver support is something that happens on the manufactures side, not ours. For devices like printers, HMIs, and older PCs and laptops, the manufacture of those devices must decide if they wish to continue support and create updated drivers for Windows 7 and 8. Considering many of those devices are now between 5-8 years old (or older) and out of warranty, those manufactures may choose not to invest in building drivers and continuing to support those devices.

KamasDancer — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:26:47 GMT

Our business has depended on many computers (eg, custom--asus mb's and commercial Gateway, Compaq, HP, Sony, and Dell) all running XPSP3 (Home and Pro) for many years. The web support for these machines has proven pretty good for getting the needed legacy device drivers. When we tried installing purchased copies of Win7 we found show stopper issues with getting device drivers to work under Win7 on these older machines. So the XP end of life seems to threaten with an expensive need for concomitant hardware replacement. In conjunction with the retirement in 2014 of XP support will Microsoft offer any additional support for legacy device drivers that will work under Win7?

KamasDancer — Sat, 18 May 2013 10:20:07 GMT

When XP support is ended in 2014 will XP reinstall activations (over the internet) also be terminated?

stephenlrose — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:59:54 GMT

There are always a few people that don't pick up their passes. Your best bet is to stop by the Windows booth late on Wed and see if there are any no shows.

MrTbone — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:09:30 GMT

Oh no! I missed to sign up this year.

Is there a waiting list if some one drops out?

/MrT

yuhong — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:14:32 GMT

"nearly 12 years"

12.5 years, actually.

yuhong — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:09:12 GMT

The reason this article don't mention Vista is probably that Extended Support for it ends in 2017, only three years after XP.

stephenlrose — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:56:27 GMT

Thank you David. See you at TechEd.

davidjcarr@hotmail.com — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:54:28 GMT

Mr. Rose : You will be missed as the host of the Springboard Community Party. See you in June!

john3347 — Wed, 08 May 2013 23:26:39 GMT

I have seen Windows 2000 leave support. All that has happened is that I never wake up in the morning with the computer hung up on a failed update. The loss of support has been a positive experience. I am looking forward to a like experience with Windows XP. I will continue to use Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7 to a limited degree. Windows 2000 stability is unrivaled by any other Windows version. Windows 8 offers a UI that I will have nothing to do with.

chucker1 — Wed, 08 May 2013 23:26:08 GMT

Will Microsoft entertain the notion of selling Windows XP lock, stock, etc?

ForemanNZ — Mon, 06 May 2013 08:31:19 GMT

Wow, I honestly thought something better had be created, but I saw the word "whitepaper" and that was enough. Why make it so hard? Oh wait, thats whats happened with Microsoft Office and Windows 8, so I'm glad to see at least Microsoft is consistently making bad decisions.

And no, I am not a Microsoft basher - I have put up with Microsoft Office 2007 for many years, I was one of the few people I know who actually liked Windows Vista (after I gave it enough RAM to work properly) but then DreamScene was removed from Windows 7 too, and I currently run Windows 7 as my preferred desktop and I know Windows XP has to die, but why does Microsoft stop supporting products that people want!

John-L_ — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:46:29 GMT

Will all the change activity since the XP SP3 release be collected into a final, albeit unsupported, update (SP4, or perhaps SP3+)?

Javid — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:43:58 GMT

My computer does not give me an option to change interface language from French to English. Under Keyboard and Language there is no install/uninstall languages button. I use windows 7 edition familiale premium, so it won't give me LIP as an optional update. Is there any other way to install the LIP?

Superdave — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:16:35 GMT

I don't get it. I spent a month working on a MBAM deployment with the Beta version and felt like the only support I had was from the forums and via Google. Microsoft has kept so tight lipped on the final release which didn't allow any business planning. Unfortunately we were forced to renew our McAfee Endpoint Encryption but this turned out to be a blessing. As clunky and as unintuitive as McAfee is, MBAM 2.0 was difficult to deploy, offers no control other than storing encryption keys, and the support is almost non existent. This product has a long way to go before it can be competitive with other solutions. Very disappointing Microsoft! Score one for MacAfee!