Microsoft will continue to offer limited 'extended' support until 2014. Microsoft ends so-called "mainstream" support for Windows XP on Tuesday, April 14, 2009. After that date, the company will provide "extended" support for another five years until April 8, 2014. However, extended support only includes free security fixes along with paid per-incident support as well as support contracts. "During the Extended support phase Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will provide paid support (example: per-incident telephone/web…
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Analysis: Microsoft and its PC partners hope Windows 7 can drive PC sales, even in a down economy. No two recessions are the same, and the shakedown hitting the U.S., indeed the global economy, is very different from the one experienced in 2000-2002. That was a powerful combination of the Silicon Valley getting hit directly from the dot-bomb implosion and the overall U.S. economy shattered by the events on September…
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