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• Windows 98, Me support to end in July
  Wednesday 12 April 2006 – 12:21
  Microsoft has officially begun requesting that users running Windows 98, 98 SE and Millennium Edition (Me) upgrade their operating system as soon as possible.
• Microsoft Windows and Office support calls to get pricier
  Tuesday 6 February 2007 – 03:21
  Microsoft is raising technical support call rates for its Vista operating system and Office suite. Despite claims of a streamlined interface and less bugs, the company wants prices to be in line with industry standards and has bumped up OS support calls for Vista and Windows XP from $39 to $59 per incident. Office XP and 2007 prices will go from $35 to $49.
• Update: Microsoft to support Windows XP Home, MCE until April 2014
  Wednesday 24 January 2007 – 07:11
  With the launch of Windows Vista being less than one week away, Microsoft today announced the extended support timeframe for Windows XP Home and XP Media Center Edition.
• Warner to support HD DVD until the end of May
  Thursday 21 February 2008 – 10:50 in Business
  Ironically, Warner Bros now has one of the strongest HD DVD line-ups over the next few months, despite the fact that it has already announced an upcoming exclusive switch to Blu-ray.
• iPhone to support third-party Web 2.0 applications
  Tuesday 12 June 2007 – 11:38
  Apple has taken first steps to create a developer community around its upcoming iPhone platform...
• As support fades, Microsoft updates Windows 2000
  Thursday 30 June 2005 – 06:10
  As the clock ticks on support for mainstream Windows 2000 users, Microsoft has released a "high priority" update rollup of over 50 security fixes.
• Windows Vista won't natively support Wireless USB, says Intel
  Wednesday 26 July 2006 – 11:01
  At the Certified Wireless USB Developers Conference, major hardware and software companies promised to start providing Certified Wireless USB devices by the end of the year.
• Netscape support to end tomorrow
  Friday 29 February 2008 – 12:50 in Business
  Dear oh dear. The day has come for us to say a sorrowful goodbye to Netscape.
• Transmeta to support "NX" security tech
  Tuesday 18 May 2004 – 04:53
  Transmeta Corp.
• ALi to support P4, PS2 games
  Wednesday 25 October 2000 – 08:43
  The Taiwanese Acer Laboratories Inc.
• Merom-based notebooks to support Nvidia SLI
  Friday 4 August 2006 – 04:57
  Nvidia will soon announce that Merom-based notebooks (Merom is a codename that Intel used for its recently announced T-series mobile Core 2 Duo processors) support its dual-graphics SLI technology, according to sources at Taiwan notebook makers.
• Netgear wireless routers to support WiFi User Protection Bill
  Tuesday 10 October 2006 – 01:10
  Netgear has announced that it will support the protection measures in the "WiFi User Protection Bill" recently signed into law in California. Last week, Governor Schwarzenegger signed the bill which requires access point manufacturers to include warnings in the configuration menus and stickers on the retail boxes. Presumably, future Netgear routers would include such warnings.
• Microsoft robotics software adds support for Win CE, Ageia PhysX
  Tuesday 10 July 2007 – 11:25 in Consumer Electronics
  Microsoft today announced an update for its robotics software platform
• Intel withdraws support of OLPC program
  Friday 4 January 2008 – 11:30 in Business
  Intel has announced that it will withdraw from the One Laptop Per Child project.
• Netscape support to cease on February 1st
  Friday 4 January 2008 – 10:30 in Networking
  We saw it coming from miles off, but it still hurts. The once ever so popular Netscape browser will, from the first of next month, be no more.