http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/category-180-june en 2007 NickR unknown_webmaster@acme.heaven 53.8481 -1.829 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:37:44 GMT Yet Another Community System http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 59 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-164-xp-pro.-the-end-is-nigh-30th-june-and-support http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-164-xp-pro.-the-end-is-nigh-30th-june-and-support Windows XP reaches its sell-by date in a few days (with the exception of XP Home "either June 30, 2010, or one year after the general availability of the next version of Windows"). default.mspx Mainstream support ends 4/14/2009. That's only 10 months full support left ! Extended support ends 4/8/2014. Which is security fixes only, no new versions of browsers, media players or support for newer products (eg though, doubtful, next version of office might not support XP due to using a Vista only feature that will not get backported to XP). Even with XP SP3 only recently been ... more N1ckR Blog Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:48:16 GMT http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-164-xp-pro.-the-end-is-nigh-30th-june-and-support#comments 0 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/post.php/article/164 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/feed.php/article/164 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A164 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-159-why-windows-7-will-be-a-massive-success http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-159-why-windows-7-will-be-a-massive-success Windows XP was massively popular, Vista is in the Shadows, but IMHO will provide a good stepping stone towards Windows 7, which will be more popular that Vista, which Windows 7 will build upon (and be 100% compatible with). Windows XP has been a very popular OS, it managed to successfully build on the rock solid Windows 2000 and replace the lack-lustre Windows ME in one fell swoop. XP SP2 offered a significant improvements to further improve the reputation and popularity of Windows XP. Read Features_new_to_Windows_XP - Wikipedia, to find out more about about what was new in XP ... more N1ckR Blog Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:12:20 GMT http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-159-why-windows-7-will-be-a-massive-success#comments 0 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/post.php/article/159 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/feed.php/article/159 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A159 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-158-i-am-back http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-158-i-am-back My arm is feeling a lot better and am back to blogging. I have been working on an updated version of my gallery code for YACS, I had hoped to get it complete in time for integration for the next big release - YACS 8.6 Macnana, but progress was slow and I missed the deadline. For now I will be concentrating on supporting the website, I shall be moderating the next English chat session on the 19th June and spend some time with documentation. Next week I shall be spending some time testing and helping to bug fix ... more N1ckR Blog Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:25:42 GMT http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-158-i-am-back#comments 0 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/post.php/article/158 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/feed.php/article/158 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A158