Windows XP SP2 Starts to Say Goodbye
Windows XP SP2 starts the final countdown and will reach the end of Windows life cycle by July 13th of this year. The end of life cycle translates in Microsoft removing the “supported operating system” tag; and even more around that date will also be the end of Windows Vista RTM (no service pack) and Windows 2000 SP4.
Don’t worry, reaching the end of support life cycle it does not mean that the operating system will stop working or it will continuously starts rebooting; but the actual inconvenience will be that you won’t have any Windows Update released for that version, except for downloading the latest service pack. This is actually something important, because if you decide to not install SP3 for Windows XP, if there’s vulnerability with the SP2 version you will not get any fix from Microsoft unless you install the latest service pack.
July 13th will be the end of Windows 2000 in Microsoft, meaning if you’ve been living in the moon for the last 8 years and you are still using Windows 2000, you will not have other choice to install a new operating system. April 13th will also be the end of Windows Vista RTM, no service pack version.
