Just days prior to launching Windows Vista, Microsoft has made the decision to extend the support lifecycle for the customer versions of its currently shipping Windows XP method. Microsoft is now offering five a long time of "mainstream" support,
Office 2010 Standard, plus five many years of "extended support" for XP Media Center and XP Home Edition. Previously, Microsoft provided no extended assistance for that consumer variations of its XP operating technique. Consequently,
Office 2007 Professional Key, customer variations of XP are now covered under mainstream support through April 2009, and under extended assistance through April 2014. As a result of the change,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, announced on January 24, Microsoft now provides the same number of decades of support for business and customer variations of Windows XP. The main difference between mainstream and extended assistance is the way Microsoft treats non-security-focused hotfixes. Under mainstream support, Microsoft provides these kinds of hotfixes for free. Under extended,
Office 2010 Serial, customers are required to pay for non-security hotfixes and must sign an "extended hotfix agreement,
Office Enterprise 2007, purchased within 90 days of mainstream support ending."