Did AMD Drop Support for Windows XP?

[[XC] Lead Head]

again, we are talking about Xp and not something else, XP had an unusually long life span for many reasons, that's true... but official MS support is still going on, most (or many) hardware manufactures are still offering support for XP, and a portion of AMD cards users are still using XP, so... XP still have clearly a significant number of users, by 2006 I think 98 had a lot less relevance than XP have now

Windows 98 support ended in 2004, not 2006. There were still A LOT of old Athlon and Pentium 3 systems running Windows 98 in 2004.

Official mainstream support for Windows XP has already ended. All support for it ends in 2014 - not even Office 2013 will support XP. It's an EoL operating system and a waste of resources to develop new product and software for it.

Mac OS5/6/7/8/ 9 ---> Mac OS X Version X.X.X ...
Each time since, change/add 2-3 things, tweak UI a bit, = new version...
Same as all the iProducts like the iPhone.

The "minor" number revisions have made some extensive changes. Including a complete re-write for x86 with OSX 10.5. It might as well been a new operating system.

It's just, OS X didn't change to something different, just gained it's own versions of a version of Mac OS...
...like if MS were to release Windows 7 R2, then Win 7 R2.1, then Win 7 R2.5.1...

Except Microsoft does do that. They just call them service packs. XP Service Pack 1, 2 and 3. Support for vanilla XP/SP1 was dropped all the way back in 2004.

What do many people do with their PCs, watch online videos and play flash games, which is possible on 6 year old PCs?

If the only thing you do is play flash games, why do you need XP drivers for that HD7970?

If you were a business, and all your office/cubible workers did were create documents, spreadsheets, powerpoints...and they could do their jobs completely fine on the PCs you bought 5 years ago, why upgrade? You wouldn't just be buying software, but hardware too...lots of $$$.

Well a PC that's 5 years old is probably running Windows 7 anyways. Business make software purchases based on the expected support EoL from whatever company wrote the software/operating system. They're not going to buy into an OS that's only a few years away from end of support.

If that 5-6-7 year old PC is adequate for what that company is doing, chances are it doesn't matter if support ends either.