Windows XP end of support in April: Three more questions answered.
#Office xp sp3 update
But the fact is, and like the machine I just dusted off in the garage, we've been using these machines for more than a decade and not all of them have been in continuous service.Īs I prepared to run the update process on the soon-to-be-new-again scanning machine, I realized that I wasn't sure how easy it would be, in years to come, to find XP's SP3 in order to upgrade those old machines. , a bunch of you were pretty hard on me for not having all my XP machines already updated to SP3 - which is needed to go to Windows 8.
#Office xp sp3 windows 8
Now, back when I wrote 8 lessons learned from upgrading a dog-slow XP machine to Windows 8 I've upgraded old XP machines before and while it's a pain, it's not a terrible process (and with a pile of spare Windows 8 licenses I bought for $40 each, it's a lot cheaper than a new machine). But it had XP on it, and since it hadn't been run (or dusted) since before the days of SP3, it wouldn't upgrade until I first upgraded it to SP3. My wife needed a spare box to use as a scanning workstation and rather than run out and buy a new machine, I scoured the boneyard, finding this beast. Like many of you, I have a lot of old machines and parts scattered around, used for certain projects and discarded or placed into the limbo we call the garage shelves.Īs it turned out, that machine had a solid motherboard and a 10,000 RPM (!) hard drive in it. I thought I'd found all our VMs and critical machines, but I had forgotten one machine that happened to be buried behind a box of cleaning supplies in the garage. The fact is, none of us will have looked everywhere and we will find some forgotten machines. I wrote about this in " The land of forgotten XP installs: Have you looked everywhere?" Now, you and I know that over the next year (or more), we're going to discover some hidden and forgotten Windows XP machines. 'There are no current plans to remove existing Windows XP security updates from Windows Update after end of support on April 8, 2014,' a spokesperson confirmed." "Microsoft will continue to make all patches and fixes made to Windows XP up until April 8, 2014, available to users via Windows Update. That bit of relief comes from the keyboard of another ZDNet colleague, Mary Jo Foley, who writes
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