Windows Vista Ultimate Support Lasts Five Years?

Microsoft Watch is editorializing about support for Windows Vista Ultimate apparently only lasting five years while other Vista flavors get ten through extended lifecycle support. Is this an oversight by MS? Can its “ultimate” version of Vista have half the support that Business and Enterprise versions do? Doesn’t seem to make sense.

According to Microsoft's Support Lifecycle Web page, support for consumer products ends after five years. There is no Extended Support option. I had always assumed that Windows Vista Ultimate, which Microsoft pitches as having the most consumer and corporate features, would be supported for more than five years. Besides, Microsoft does offer Ultimate to businesses for volume-licensing purchase, with caveats such as single activation.

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