With just a few weeks remaining for the release of Vista, Microsoft has extended its support to its previous products; Xp home edition and XP media centre edition.

 Consumers will receive Mainstream support for Windows XP Home and Windows XP MCE until April of 2009. Mainstream support includes no-charge incident support, security updates, hotfixes and feature requests.The Extended Support phase for Windows XP Home, MCE and Professional will end in April 2014. In the case of Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional, the operating system would have been supported by Microsoft for a total of 13 years.