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Microsoft Announces 16 Years of Support for Windows, SQL Servers

posted by Snow on Monday December 12 2016, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the does-that-include-emotional-support dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Microsoft has announced a new "Premium Assurance" plan for Windows Server and SQL Server.

Redmond currently offers five years of Mainstream Support on the aforementioned products, during which new features are added and updates are made for reasons of security or just to fix things up. Next comes five years of extended support, during which the security fixes and functionality tweaks keep flowing.

The new support offering will see bugs rated "critical" or "important" patched for the six-year duration of the Premium Assurance plan.

The outcome of the new plan is that operating systems like Windows Server 2008 R2 will now be supported until the year 2026. SQL Server 2008 can now be supported until 2025.

Microsoft's billing Premium Assurance as a comfort to those running applications that may not be easy to evaporate into a cloud. By offering extended support, Redmond reckons, you can just keep them running without worrying about migration.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @04:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @04:25AM (#440662)

    I bet a large group of my old co-workers just had a big sigh of relief that they do not have to update from win2008r2 and sql 2008. My bet is they threw a bucketload of money at them to do that.

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  • (Score: 2) by Webweasel on Tuesday December 13 2016, @08:53AM

    by Webweasel (567) on Tuesday December 13 2016, @08:53AM (#440727) Homepage Journal

    DAMN RIGHT!

    Mumble mumble .net 4.6 breaking changes bastards grumble mumble

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @05:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @05:02PM (#440848)

    Or maybe large number of them kept mentioned "Linux/OSS" to Microsoft. After all if the pain of downgrading the newer versions of Windows gets high enough, a fair number might switch to OSS instead.

    Especially since Microsoft is supposedly already embracing Linux.