Hasta La Gadget!

It has been a long time in coming, some might say. After all, all good things do come to an end eventually, and with Microsoft’s venerable Windows XP operating system which proved to be many peoples’ favorite, the looking April 8th deadline is getting closer and closer, as that would be the day that marks the end of Microsoft’s support for Windows XP. In fact, Microsoft has recently urged holdouts to make the upgrade to Windows 8. Well, it seems that such advice has fallen on deaf ears, at least where the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is concerned. It seems that the UK’s NHS, which can be somewhat equated to the U.S. Public Health Service, is currently discussing with Microsoft to extend support for Windows XP for its computer systems that still run on that version of the operating system.

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Microsoft Could Extend Windows XP Support For UK’s National Health Service original content from Ubergizmo.

This article was written on April 06, 2007 by CyberNet.

Are you planning to purchase Vista after Service Pack 1 is released? Your plans might have just changed. Microsoft says that they don’t have any plans to issue a major service pack for Windows Vista like they did with Windows XP. This came from a senior Microsoft official who said that Vista was “high quality right out of the gate,” and in other words, is not needed.

When asked whether they would continue to have service packs, the corporate VP for Windows Marketing says that they will, however they won’t be as urgent, or as important as XP service packs were.

If you recall, Service Pack 1 for XP was around 30–134MB, and the second one was much larger at around 75–266 MB.  SP1 patched security holes, but also added additional functionality like USB 2.0 support, and a “Set Program Access and Defaults Utility”.  Within that service pack, Microsoft removed Java Virtual Machine which was a requirement after a lawsuit with Sun Microsystems.

One of the big differences with Vista is how users get updates.  When Microsoft can add updates slowly over time using Windows Updates, there’s really no reason for one big update like a service pack.  Which also means, to those who said that they were going to wait until the first service pack was released to make the upgrade, you’ll have to think of another reason to continue using your XP machine.

Source: CyberNet Forum (Thanks Richard) [via iTnews.com]

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Over the past few weeks we have been hearing quite a lot about Windows Phone 8.1. Microsoft is expected to release this major update for its mobile platform in the near future, and several features that this update is going to bring have already been detailed online due to an SDK leak. Initially it was rumored that Windows Phone 8.1 will bring the ability to mirroring the device’s screen but the protocol wasn’t known. It is now believed that Windows Phone 8.1 Miracast support is possible, provided that Microsoft is able to finish it in time.

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Windows Phone 8.1 Miracast Support Possible original content from Ubergizmo.

Recently it was rumored that Microsoft is going to talk about Windows 9 at its BUILD conference presumably because it wants the next major Windows update to start fresh. Apparently it doesn’t want to launch it under the Windows 8 moniker due to the slow pace this particular iteration of Windows is moving at. While that is far from being confirmed, Tami Reller of Microsoft today revealed at a Goldman Sachs technology conference that Windows 8 license sales have now crossed the 200 million milestone.

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Windows 8 License Sales Cross 200 Million original content from Ubergizmo.