Tuesday, June 3rd 2008
Microsoft Further Extends Windows XP Deadline for Low-Cost PCs to 2010
Yesterday during the first day of Computex, Rob Young - a senior director of Microsoft OEM group - said that Microsoft will once more extended the deadline for selling Window XP licenses with low-cost desktops until 2010. Microsoft has been under pressure from computer makers that produce and sell UMPCs, because their machines are still not fast enough to run Vista, but are better suited for the old Windows XP OS. In April Microsoft extended its deadline for selling Windows XP licenses to June 30th. Now "nettop" makers like ASUS and their Eee PC have two more years to sell Windows XP. Microsoft is currently supplying Windows XP licenses to more than 20 OEMs including Acer, ASUSTeK, Dell, HP, MSI and others.
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32 Comments on Microsoft Further Extends Windows XP Deadline for Low-Cost PCs to 2010
Along with many clients of mine, we are happy for the continued XP support untill we are able to replace the operating system with something just as, or more efficient then XP for pc's that shouldnt require overpowered components to achieve day to day tasks.
And that would suck (for MS).
Dropping support for XP would be disasterous.
Plus, personally I don't like having Vista shoved down my throat. Buy any new laptop now and you don't have any choice... you get Vista almost 100% of the time!
using nlite would probably be better lol
Vista didn't like my SATA/RAID drivers so I couldn't use RAID. I also get better benchmarks with XP now that I used to with Vista. I'm sure that some of that is the fault of the hardware manufacturers but at the end of the day I'm going to choose whatever WORKS best. I couldn't care less about Aero.. I turned all that crap off anyway.
It doesn't make any sense. Isn't Windows 7 supposed to come out at the end of this year anyway?
@ Davidelmo
My school is running Pentium D's @ 2.6GHz with 1GB DDR2. They'll run Vista fine.
BTW, you thinking that XP is great and vista sux,, but have u ever tried Vista before?
And no, 2010.
anyway XP PRO SP2 is about 70UK Sterling OEMS vary from 55-60UK sterling.
as i look after a lot of friends & familys computers I happy that i can keep recommending & sticking with XP - not because i know how to use it. but because its generaly more user friendly & straight forward then vista.
If MS can make money by continuing to sell and support Windows XP, they should.
Their goal as a corporation is to continue to make profits on their products, and increase revenue (dividends) for their shareholders.
It is obvious that the sales and support of XP is still bringing them profits.
They will continue to do this until the support of XP costs them more than they are bringing in from sales, at which time they will be running at a net loss.
Business 101.
And yes, if you read the thread you'd see that I have used vista.. for about 6 months actually.
trust me, i been down this road here and other places, vista fanboi's will tell you its better on any hardware period, i had one on neo win tell me that vista runs better then xp on an athlon 550mhz(athlon classic) with 768mb pc133 ram and a 12gb bigfoot hdd.......oh yeah and he works for ms to boot( as do most of the neowin loundmouths from what i can tell)
im sure most people here would admit that vista wont run better then xp or 2k on that system but he was dead set that it did run 100% better and was just great.........:rolleyes: