Office XP drops off the edge of the Microsoft support cliffside.
It’s more than ten years since Office XP was unleashed to the public. That means Microsoft will stop supporting the software from 11 July 2011.
As far as Microsoft support is concerned, Office XP will be no more, it will cease to be, it will have expired and gone to meet its maker, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible. It will be ex-software – just like a certain parrot.
The current Microsoft support policy gives 5 years of ‘Mainstream’ support then another 5 years of ‘Extended’ support. Those values can and do alter sometimes depending on circumstances.
From 11 July there will be no more patches, security updates or paid support. Any Office XP users are ‘on their own’ relying on online sites like the Microsoft Knowledge Base and other web sites like Office-Watch.com .
Office 2003 is now in the extended support phase and will continue to get security patches until April 2014.
