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Microsoft will support XP until 2014
Andrew Wooden Jun 25 2008, 11:54am
Software giant promises to provide OS updates and patches long after usual expiry date
Microsoft has said it will continue to support Windows XP until 2014 – 13 years after the operating system was released.
Usually Microsoft ends such support for its operating systems less than ten years after launch. Many have asserted that the move points to a lower than expected uptake of its successor Vista, however Microsoft said the move is simply a recognition of the long lifespan of Windows based PCs.
“Our ongoing support for Windows XP is the result of our recognition that people keep their Windows-based PCs for many years,” said senior VP Bill Veghte.
"It's true that we will stop selling Windows XP as a retail packaged product and stop licensing it directly to major PC manufacturers, but customers who still need Windows XP will be able to get it."
Link: Information Week
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Comments
“Continued XP support”
Posted by: Norman-Ellis - Jun 25, 3:55pm
Thank you Microsoft. That is good news, for the sake of consumers and small businesses how about going a step further, and make XP available to the channel until the launch of Windows version 7?
“Re: Continued XP support”
Posted by: Matthew Woolley - Jun 25, 6:55pm
Just XP Pro then. What about our biggest selling product. XP Home. Will we still be able to get that? Will XP be priced out of the market for home users?
Watch this space.
“Re: Re: Continued XP support”
Posted by: Retailer X - Jun 25, 9:43pm
Of course it will. Microsoft have been forced down this route by people's insitence on not upgrading.
If you want people to buy your new product, you take away the one they're happy with.
While Microsoft have the most compatible software and the public are still wary of Linux, Microsoft will continue to reign supreme.
Thing is though, people forget; exactly the same complaints were leveled at XP when it first launched. Exactly the same will be leveled against Windows 7 when it launches, with people saying they want to keep Vista.
I'd bet my business on it.
“Re: Re: Re: Continued XP support”
Posted by: Retailer Z - Jun 26, 9:55am
Microsoft are ignoring want the Public want, an O/S that works for them, VISTA is conceptually flawed, this is not a issue of "bugs" or "lack of Drivers" which could be fixed, it needs a fundamental re-writing or stick with XP, which is what our punters are almost unaminously doing. The only buyers of VISTA are newbies buying from the likes of Tesco, and even some of these are brining their purchases in and paying to upgrade to XP.
We are now ramping up our offerings with Linux and Open Office fror XP becoming unavailable.
Microsoft could well become the IBM of the next decade.