<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:<br>> does everyone here understand that Microsoft will be releasing <br>> security updates and patches to XP Professional until 4/8/2014? <br><br>Any chance they'll patch DNS to support IPv6?<br><br>> You can be sure that XP will be a significant number of installed <br>> seats on the Internet until then, and as long as it is, IPv6 isn't <br>> going to be widely deployed.<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>I use this site to judge number of seats:<br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10">http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10</a></span><br><br>Windows 7 already has 4% share. WinXP was end-of-sale June 2008.<br>It will have been EOL for six years by 2014, which is longer than the<br>typical life of a PC, and new PCs will have Windows 7. <br>I don't know for how long it will be "significant," but no OS older than <br>six years has even a tenth of a percent share.<br>WinXP can run dual stack (but not IPv6-only), and so should not be a <br>significant inhibitor to IPv6.<br><br>Lee<br></div></div>
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