Versions of Windows Vista, which has not installed a Service Pack will soon be excluded from the technical assistance program. For each edition of Microsoft Windows provides support for at least five years. This time is not counted from the date of purchase, but from the date of the product.
As for the versions that are not intended for households, but for professional use, from that moment one begins with a 5-year Extended Support phase is called - at that time Microsoft publishes only those patches that fix vulnerabilities classified as critical by the group of security point of view.
Microsoft said, however, aid is guaranteed only to those releases, which has installed a current service pack. When there is a new package of amendments, users have about two years to install it, and more precisely, until the first day of the patch after two years. That deadline was passed in the case of Vista: two years after the publication of Service Pack 1 from tomorrow begins the last month of technical support for Vista without Service Pack. From 13 April 2010 Microsoft stop providing this service.
For Vista Service Pack from the current support is still in force until 2012. For Vista systems, Professional and Enterprise service on the principles of Extended Support will be in force until 2017. If one instead uses Vista Home Basic, Home Premium or Ultimate, according to current plans after 2012 will have to start looking for a new operating system, although those releases will continue to operate, but new vulnerabilities discovered in them will no longer Łatana.
If someone wants to be with Windows, you may change to Windows 7 - or on any version of Vista's predecessor - Windows XP. As the result of pressure Microsoft provides customers in all editions of this system Extended Support, the gaps in XP Home will Łatana even by 2014 - and then for two years longer than for Vista Ultimate, but also here in the system must be running Service Pack 3.
We all know Windows Vista has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel!
