Support
killed off
Microsoft's least loved operating system, since Microsoft
Bob, has been taken for a walk in a Berlin forest and discretely shot in the
back of the head. Microsoft said that the service pack-free version of
Vista will no longer be supported after April. The OS which hit manufacturers in late 2006 is left
entirely at the mercy of hackers.
Ironically Redmond isn't switching off the security
updates on its more popular, but much
older operating systems - Windows XP SP2, as well as all version of Windows
2000 until July. Microsoft's Eric Ligman warned on the company's SMB
community blog th that engineers may not be able to help resolve this until you
have upgraded to a supported level.
Vista is currently on Service Pack 2 and Microsoft
considers this as a "bare minimum" for decent support.