Tag: EOL

Back in June, Microsoft announced that OEMs would need to begin the final move away from Windows XP. The drop-dead date from Redmond was October 22, 2010 -- which is now fast approaching. It should come as no surprise, then, that Dell issued a statement yesterday saying that XP Home and Pro will no longer be offered as a factory preinstall option by the end of this month. The Dell post offers ...

SteadyState is one of my favorite free utilities from Microsoft, and it was one of the first apps I ever wrote about here at Download Squad. Now, however, it appears as though the sun is setting on SteadyState: Microsoft has announced that support will be ending on June 30th, 2011. That, of course, simply means that actual support for SteadyState will come to an end -- don't expect to get ...

In case you're not familiar with it, G.ho.st is a cloud-based operating system. We've written about it before, and it's actually a really cool little service. The performance of their 'webtop' had improved quite a bit since I used it last, and their desktop sync app made moving files to and from the cloud a painless procedure. Sadly, though, it was a pretty cool service. Yesterday I (along ...