{"id":703,"date":"2007-01-26T12:18:19","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T10:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rare-it.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/01\/26\/microsoft-supports-xp-until-2014\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T10:18:19","slug":"microsoft-supports-xp-until-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2007\/01\/microsoft-supports-xp-until-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft supports XP until 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but only if you have a Home-Edition or MediaCenter-Edition. So if you&#8217;ve paid the extra bucks for the Pro Edition (which I did) you get less support. What&#8217;s that all about? A so called &#8220;companies have the cash so they should pay for the support of home users&#8221; motto? What about: a company has some several hunderd (if not more) installations of Windows XP, you know what: we&#8217;ll give them free support until 2014, just like the Home-users. Of course not: nobody would believe that to be a viable marketing strategy.<\/p>\n<p>I think Microsoft marketing personnel is the best. Worth their weight in gold. No, double that. But still they are the reason why Microsoft sucks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: I suck. MS extended the support on Home\/MCE to match the support of Pro. So I guess that&#8217;s okay \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nSee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2007\/jan07\/01-24ExtendedSupportWindowsMA.mspx\">this press-release<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but only if you have a Home-Edition or MediaCenter-Edition. So if you&#8217;ve paid the extra bucks for the Pro Edition (which I did) you get less support. What&#8217;s that all about? A so called &#8220;companies have the cash so they should pay for the support of home users&#8221; motto? What about: a company has some <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2007\/01\/microsoft-supports-xp-until-2014\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}