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Skybird
04-04-08, 10:47 AM
Microsoft has extended the lifespan of XP again, until summer 2010.

Official reason is that they want to support low budget notebooks with not too much memory on board - Vista demands far too high specs to support these.

Ein Schelm wer Böses dabei denkt! :smug:
Tchocky
04-04-08, 10:48 AM
I heard they're stopping production in June :-?

Link? because this would be very good news!
Skybird
04-04-08, 10:49 AM
I heard they're stopping production in June :-?

Link? because this would be very good news!

http://www.welt.de/webwelt/article1870460/XP_darf_leben_weil_Vista_zu_viel_Speicher_frisst.h tml

It's still June, they say, but no more June 2008 but June 2010.

P.S. But I oversaw that indeed the extended lifespan is for low budget PC manufacturers only.
Dowly
04-04-08, 10:55 AM
I cant see Microsoft stopping making of XP anytime soon. IIRC, they werent that happy with Vista themselves, so. ;)
STEED
04-04-08, 11:02 AM
Vista is a drain and as we all know a flop.

XP :up:
TDK1044
04-04-08, 11:06 AM
I think Vista is dead to Microsoft. They're extending XP to cover themselves before releasing their new OS in 2010.
Dowly
04-04-08, 11:07 AM
I think Vista is dead to Microsoft. They're extending XP to cover themselves before releasing their new OS in 2010.

Exactly. :up:
Skybird
04-04-08, 11:10 AM
Ah, people, you understood that I was blowing the trumpet too early a bit...? XP will be delivered only to manufacturers of low budget laptops until June 2010 - beyond that, selling stop of XP continues to be june 2008. Patch support for XP is planned to stop in 2014.

Says the article which I read too fast in the first run.
Tchocky
04-04-08, 11:11 AM
Ah, feck.


May pick up another copy before June for my next PC
JSLTIGER
04-04-08, 12:10 PM
It's only XP Home...XP Pro, MCE, x64, etc. are still dead as of June.
Konovalov
04-04-08, 12:13 PM
Ah, feck.


May pick up another copy before June for my next PC

Yep. Thinking of doing exactly the same. :yep:
PeriscopeDepth
04-04-08, 12:20 PM
Bill Gates is superenthused. :lol:

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN0430179020080404

PD
Skybird
04-04-08, 12:43 PM
Ah, feck.


May pick up another copy before June for my next PC

Yep. Thinking of doing exactly the same. :yep:
I'm three.
AdlerGrosmann
04-05-08, 01:05 AM
Vista's ok, you can edit some stuff for your computer.

Go Windows XP! Shall it live forever :up: