Thursday, April 3rd 2008
Microsoft Extends Sales of Windows XP Home for ULPCs Until 2010
Microsoft who once extended the life period of its Windows XP operating system is now going to do it again. The company originally planned to suspend the sale of Windows XP on June 30, 2008, but the big success of all low-cost notebook offerings is forcing Microsoft to further extend the life of XP. Microsoft will now make Windows XP Home available for ultra-low-cost PCs (ULPCs) until June 30, 2010 or one year after the release of the next version of Windows. Microsoft goes on to state that it "Heard from partners and customers that they want Windows broadly available for this new class of devices, because they want the familiarity, compatibility and support only available on the Windows platform." Microsoft also acknowledged that Windows XP makes more sense than Windows Vista for these machines adding, "While Windows Vista provides many benefits, including an easier and more secure user experience, Windows XP Home provides an effective solution on these devices from a performance and cost perspective." Unfortunately, only XP Home will get a reprieve from Microsoft.
Source:
DailyTech
49 Comments on Microsoft Extends Sales of Windows XP Home for ULPCs Until 2010
they both have there pros and cons but i don't know why people dog on vista so much?
it was the same way going from 98 to xp or 2000 to xp?
i guess i like it because if you have a system that will run vista, then it runs great!
when i first built my computer i had XP on but moved to vista shortly afterwords imo vista runs just as fast if not faster in some areas than xp
and of course it takes a better system but thats because its newer!!!
and im guessing as soon as windows 7 comes out everyone will hate it 2 :ohwell:
thats just my 2 cents
but seriously XP is a great os and im glad to hear the news...
My laptop has XP, and my main rig has Vista. I get so used to vista, and now I go back to XP.. there's a big difference. I take back my first post,, I hope xp dies or whatever. They're both good OS's..but I prefer Vista. XP was good, but we all gotta move on...
kewl! :D
No, I'm not a MS salesperson either.
XP is fairly solid, definitely more solid than vista and supports more hardware and software simply because of it's age...
However there is a far better version of Windows than either of them. "XP Pro X64" (NT5.2). It's based off Server 2k3 (NT 5.2) and it's native X64. I use it on everything, it's both faster and more stable than either XP (NT 5.1) or Vista (NT 6).
btw:
i love your avatar!
1. The audio architecture - lack of audio hardware acceleration without the use of 3rd party APIs - also, as we've just recently learned over the last week, Creative has been disabling features with Vista drivers; asides from, even with stable drivers, there are a lot of audio issues regardless of your audio card manufacturer (sorry, but being an audiophile, this is a big issue for me).
2. The gaming performance hit - big gamer here too; granted I might be stouting a quad and 2 crossfired 1950 PROs, I'm not willing to take a gaming performance hit simply because of the OS design.
3. Overall, I still find Vista to be way too buggy, based upon MS' "statements" (i.e. delaying SP1 because of big name manufacturers that still couldn't get their software to run stable with the new RC, and then MS going and releasing SP1 anyways), and helping my father fix issues on his system (he's running Vista).
I'll be honest and say that I do see that the OS has a lot of potential, but I'd like to see it come a ways further before I even consider it. I'd love to see MS redesign the audio stack, but I don't think that will happen with this OS.
Pro supports up to 4 processors per licesne while Home Supports 1 per licesnse, this does not include cores per Processors both support unlimited cores per physical package
Pro supports advanced networking features it can host more than 10 network computers, home can only network 10 computers together max, what home honestly has more than 10 computers in active use all the time?
Pro supports remote desktop, home does not support control of it but does of giving it.
these are the diffrances, do these matter to 90% of the home users?
learn before you bash
And even when I didn't use to have 10 pcs Home always gave me wierd issues with anything network related.
You shouldn't assume before you bash.
im a gamer,i play a "lot of games" and tbh in probably 90% of recent games i got a performance drop using Vista.Why does anyone thinks its perfectly acceptable to spend #100s on better and faster PC components only to have Vista slow it down again?
Some games were roughly about the same performance on both XP/Vista but i want all games to be around the same ,i dont think thats unreasonable tbh.
While u probably think i hate Vista ,i dont ,as i said it does have a lot of good features and i love the Aero :) ,but until or IF its performance for Gaming is equal to XP ill pass for the moment.Maybe in another 6-12 months itll be as good or even better as XP is now for heavy gamers,then i may switch.