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Microsoft: We're not ditching Vista until at least 2011
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-05-05 15:53:32 237
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But it will stop patching consumer editions in April 2012
By Gregg Keizer @ ComputerWorld
Microsoft Corp. will not dump Vista when "Windows 7" launches and plans to keep selling it to computer makers, system builders, volume licensees and consumers at retail until at least January 2011, a Microsoft spokesman said, citing long-running policy.
The company, however, will drop support for the three consumer editions of Windows Vista in less than three years.
Earlier today, a Microsoft general manager hinted to the IDG News Service that the company might ditch Vista as soon as "Windows 7" ships. He also said that support for all versions of Vista will end in April 2012.
Neither is true, according to the company.
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