XP and Solidworks

[grunt58]

First off I googled and didn't find an official statement from SW that SW won't support XP anymore after 20XX release. Anyone have a link to an official SW statement? I need to let the powers that be know so we can upgrade to windows 7 or upgrade SW before XP isn't supported anymore.

Per the link below 2011 supports XP, I thought it wasn't.

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/SystemRequirements.html

Certified SolidWorks Associate
SW2009 X64 SP 1.0
Dell Precision T5400
Nvidia Quadro FX 5600
Xeon 2.5GHz Quad Core, 4GB RAM
XP Pro X64 SP2.0

 

[CADFlyer]

http://files.solidworks.com/Supportfiles/Release_Notes/2011/English/relnotes.htm#System_Requirements

"Windows XP Retirement Announcement

Microsoft officially retired Windows® XP operating system in April of 2009. SolidWorks 2011 will continue to support Windows XP (32 and 64 bit versions) excluding operating systems related issues or fixes. This level of support will continue through at least one release following SolidWorks 2011. After that, in conjunction with Microsoft’s support policies, only Windows

Vista® and Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit versions) operating systems will be supported. The SolidWorks operating system support plan outlined above will also apply to the SolidWorks Simulation and SolidWorks Enterprise PDM product lines."

 

[grunt58]

Thanks saw that before but did not understand it at first. Looks like SW 2012 will support XP but 2013 is up in the air.

Certified SolidWorks Associate
SW2009 X64 SP 1.0
Dell Precision T5400
Nvidia Quadro FX 5600
Xeon 2.5GHz Quad Core, 4GB RAM
XP Pro X64 SP2.0