Microsoft corporation decide to end the official tech support to Windows Xp sp2 and windows 2000 operating system,After July 13 2010 company doesn’t provide any support to these two operating systems withdraw support which means that Windows XP users can extend support at no cost by upgrading to SP3, but Windows 2000 users have no such option.
According to Microsoft, the company offers support for its products for five years and extended support for another five years. This means that both Windows 2000 (desktop and server) and Windows XP SP2 will no more receive any security updates, support assistance, or help from paid support.
According to Microsoft, users of both operating systems would still be able to access self-help online support (such as Microsoft online Knowledge Base articles, FAQs, troubleshooting tools, and other resources) for at least another year.

Although paid support, support assistance, and security updates will be discontinued on July 13. However, the company plans to terminate (aka “retire”) Windows XP on April 8, 2014. Currently memorial services for the popular, die-hard OS have not been confirmed.

The Redmond software maker has advised Windows 2000 users to shift to the latest Windows 7 or Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2008 R2.

Note that if you are running a Windows Vista with no service packs installed, Microsoft support ended on April 13, but you can upgrade for free to SP2 for continued support.

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7)Unity-Linux :http://unity-linux.org Rating: 7/10

8)Vectorlinux :www.vectorlinux.com 5/10

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