A nice summary of Windows support timelines

Obviously, the date that looms largest for many organizations — especially on what I like to jokingly call “the trailing edge” of technology — is the April 8, 2014 date when Windows XP SP3 support goes away forever. Despite the many predictions that Microsoft will yet again extend this date (as they’ve done twice already) I don’t think that it’s going to be stretched out any further. Otherwise, MS ends up supporting 4 OSes for some time, adding Windows 8 (or whatever final product name the “next Windows OS” takes with it to market) to the current three-OS line-up of XP, Vista, and Windows 7. Not gonna happen…