Microsoft Announces End of Windows XP SP 1 Support

According to a US-CERT security bulletin on October 10, 2006:

On October 10, 2006, Microsoft will end all public assisted support for Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1). After this date, Microsoft will no longer provide any incident support options or security updates for this retired service pack under the policies defined by the Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy. We strongly encourage Windows XP users to upgrade to Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) as soon as possible.

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