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Old April 10, 2012, 11:09 AM
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Microsoft announced yesterday that it has begun the two-year end of life countdown for Windows XP and Office 2003.

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Old April 10, 2012, 11:14 AM
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I'm more upset about the office 2003 EOL than XP. IMO, every Office release after 2003 has been horrible (probably because the interface isn't intuitive... I mean c'mon... it shouldn't be that hard to get a printout to stop looking like it's double spaced............).

XP has had a great run, and truely was dialed in when they released Vista, but it's time to move on folks.... ;)
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I totally agree about the Office 2003. I hate the new interface, but I had to adjust since 2007 is what my work uses. Gross.
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I'm more upset about the office 2003 EOL than XP. IMO, every Office release after 2003 has been horrible (probably because the interface isn't intuitive... I mean c'mon... it shouldn't be that hard to get a printout to stop looking like it's double spaced............).

XP has had a great run, and truely was dialed in when they released Vista, but it's time to move on folks.... ;)
XP lost all momentum when Win7 was released. Vista made people like myself stick with XP as we didn't want to use a craptastic OS.
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Not that anyone cares but Vista officially lost all support today from Microsoft.


April 10 is the day Vista dies
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