Activation after the end of support?

It will be possible to reactivate an installation of Windows XP after the end of the support in 2014? I intend to keep an XP system to run old programs and worry about what happens if I need to reinstall it.

When MS XP launched in 2001, they promised that the activation would be available to certain (undefined) point in the future, date at which they would make available a patch to remove the requirement.

I believe that to be the case.

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