Microsoft will officially retire support for Office XP and
Vista's first service pack according to published plans on July 12
2011. That's the last date you will be able to get security
updates for these older products.
Microsoft supports business products for 10 year cycles, with
the first five years in what they call 'mainstream support' and the
second five years in 'extended support'. The difference is that in
extended support non-security fixes are paid for.
If you use Vista you can continue to receive security updates by
upgrading to Service Pack 2 (SP2) which was released in May 2009.
If you are running Office 2003, Microsoft will continue
providing extended support until April 2014.
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