Autodesk Ended Support for Microsoft Windows Vista, but not Windows XP for 2012

On January 1st, 2012, Autodesk formally ended support of products released in 2012 that will be running on the Windows Vista Operating System (See Press Release).  However, they have not ended support for their products running Windows XP.  Interesting isn’t it?

Right now nothing has really changed because as of the date that this is posted, Autodesk hasn’t released anything (that I am aware of) in 2012.  The 2012 line of products were released in the year 2011 so they are still supported, if you are running Vista.

Why are they doing this?  They ended sales support for Vista way back in 2011 so they are following suite with the rest of their support system.  Ok, that makes sense but why support XP and not Vista?  According to their press release they have enough customers using XP that they need to support it.  That’s just crazy isn’t it?  What’s going to happen when Windows 8 comes out this year?

I don’t know either but all of these updates makes my head spin!  It’s going to be a great year for IT support and CAD managers dealing with software updates.  Maybe this is a great year to get all of your users on the same Operating System?