Microsoft ends support for Windows XP's first service pack
{{date|October 10, 2006}}

As [[w:Microsoft|Microsoft]] had previously announced, they will stop supporting the first service pack of their flagship operating system software, [[w:Windows XP|Windows XP]]. The company will not provide any security updates or incident support options for Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Service Pack 1a (SP1a).

On October 10, 2006 support and security updates for these two products will end, as part of the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy. In their customer notification about the change, the software giant advises customers to update to the newer Service Pack 2 (SP2), released in 2004.

Windows XP SP1 was released on September 9, 2002, offering more than 300 security updates in one package. Other than the security updates, SP1 also introduced [[w:Universal Serial Bus|USB 2.0]] support and a new utility, ''Set Program Access and Defaults'', which let users to have control over Microsoft's bundled products. On February 3, 2003, the service pack was re-released as Service Pack 1a which, as a result of a lawsuit with [[w:Sun Microsystems|Sun Microsystems]], removed the Microsoft virtual machine (VM), which provided support for [[w:Java programming language|Java]] programs.

The support end date for SP1 was originally September 17, 2006.

== Related news ==
*{{Wikinews|title=Microsoft ends support for Windows 98 and Me|date=July 11, 2006}}

==Sources==

*{{source|url=http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean19/en
|title=Windows XP SP1 and SP1a support ends on October 10, 2006
|author=
|pub=Microsoft Help and Support Web site
|date=Reviewed: April 19, 2006}}

*{{source|url=http://www.microsoft.com/windows/support/endofsupport.mspx
|title=End of support for Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows XP Service Pack 1
|author=
|pub=Windows Web site
|date=Updated: May 22, 2006}}

*{{source|url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324720/en
|title=List of fixes in Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 1a
|author=
|pub=Microsoft Help and Support Web site
|date=Last review: June 16, 2006}}

*{{source|url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813926/en-us
|title=Differences Between Windows XP SP1 and Windows XP SP1a
|author=
|pub=Microsoft Help and Support Web site
|date=Last review: November 14, 2005}}

== External links ==

*[http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/default.mspx Windows XP Service Pack 2]

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As Microsoft had previously announced, they will stop supporting the first service pack of their flagship operating system software, Windows XP. The company will not provide any security updates or incident support options for Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Service Pack 1a (SP1a).

On October 10, 2006 support and security updates for these two products will end, as part of the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy. In their customer notification about the change, the software giant advises customers to update to the newer Service Pack 2 (SP2), released in 2004.

Windows XP SP1 was released on September 9, 2002, offering more than 300 security updates in one package. Other than the security updates, SP1 also introduced USB 2.0 support and a new utility, Set Program Access and Defaults, which let users to have control over Microsoft's bundled products. On February 3, 2003, the service pack was re-released as Service Pack 1a which, as a result of a lawsuit with Sun Microsystems, removed the Microsoft virtual machine (VM), which provided support for Java programs.

The support end date for SP1 was originally September 17, 2006.

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