Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced a slight tweak to its software support life cycle to give customers an extra few weeks to get security patches that may be in the pipeline.
The change applies to all Microsoft products—enterprise and consumer—and immediately affects users of Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5.
Mainstream life-cycle support for the server expired on Dec. 31, 2005, but the mini-extension means that a "critical" patch scheduled to ship in January's update cycle will be available for Exchange Server 5.5 users.
Before this change, Exchange 5.5 users would have had to pay for patches via a special custom support program.
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