Microsoft aims to end update support for Vista before XP and Windows 2000.  Enough said!  What a disaster Vista has been for Microsoft.

A colleague of mine was at demonstration or conference about two months ago and he was told by a Microsoft evangelist that the MS policy was not refer to Visa by name (Vista) but as the previous operating system!!

So the end is nigh for XP and W2K but so far Windows 7 seems a good replacement.

"The company said yesterday that a Vista service pack-free OS will no longer get MS support after 13 April this year, leaving the flaky platform entirely at the mercy of hackers who might wish to exploit that code.