Microsoft will retire support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 one year from today. This does not mean Microsoft will stop supporting XP! What it means is that it will not longer support SP2. After Patch Tuesday, July 13, 2010 you will have to have SP3 installed in order to get updates for Windows XP. If a vulnerability is found in SP2 that is not in SP3, it will not be patched.
We have also reached the end of the line for Windows XP service packs: After SP3 no new service packs are planned. Microsoft will not end support for Windows XP itself for almost 4 more years as Extended Support is scheduled to end on April 8, 2014.
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