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My personal opinion is that XP was good, but they should have topped that on
the next version, not create the stupid OS called vista
Lets hope at least they get windows 7 right!
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=759
On September 27, Microsoft has extended the cut-off as to when PC makers
will be allowed to continue to sell Windows XP with new machines.
Until now, January 30, 2008, was the Microsoft-imposed deadline for system
vendors to cease offering Windows XP on all new OEM machines. (System
builders, a k a white-box vendors, had a longer deadline: January 30, 2009.)
But as a result of feedback from customers and partners, Microsoft has
extended the OEM and retailer cut-off date for XP to June 30, 2008. That
gives consumers five more months to buy XP with new Windows PCs before being
required to provide Vista.
The system-builder cut-off date for XP stays at 2009. Vendors selling XP
Starter Edition on "ultra-low-cost" machines get a longer reprieve and can
sell XP through 2010. And, in spite of the later cutover date for OEMs,
nothing changes, in terms of how long Microsoft will support Windows Vista:
Microsoft will provide mainstream support through 2012 and extended support
through 2017.
Microsoft began paving the way for a longer Vista ramp-up in July, when it
began simplifying the process by which its top-tier PC partners could
downgrade Vista users to XP.
Microsoft officials insist Vista is selling well and the push back of the
cutover deadline shouldn't be interpreted as Microsoft lessening its
commitment to Vista. The company will continue to spend its Windows
marketing and support dollars on Vista, not XP.
"The one-year XP transition just turned out to be a little too ambitious,"
acknowledged Kevin Kutz, a director in the Windows client unit.
Traditionally, Microsoft has given OEMs two years to transition to a new
operating system release, Kutz said.
Some industry watchers see the move as evidence of Microsoft is being
responsive to customers and partners. Others see it as Microsoft going with
the lesser of two evils by giving users not ready to move to Vista a choice
other than defecting to Mac OSX or Linux. Even though Microsoft is likely
making a few less dollars per copy of XP sold to OEMs than it makes on a
copy of Vista, a Windows sale is still a Windows sale.
For my part, I can't help but wonder if Vista finally and irrevocably pushed
Windows into the same category as Microsoft Office, meaning that the cost
and potential risks of upgrading have come to outweigh the benefit of new
features in the eyes of many customers.
What's your take? Did Microsoft make XP Service Pack (SP) 2 too good for its
own good? Or is Vista just an off release that Microsoft should hurry up and
replace - and definitely sooner than 2010, when it is slated to roll out
Windows 7?
the next version, not create the stupid OS called vista
Lets hope at least they get windows 7 right!
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=759
On September 27, Microsoft has extended the cut-off as to when PC makers
will be allowed to continue to sell Windows XP with new machines.
Until now, January 30, 2008, was the Microsoft-imposed deadline for system
vendors to cease offering Windows XP on all new OEM machines. (System
builders, a k a white-box vendors, had a longer deadline: January 30, 2009.)
But as a result of feedback from customers and partners, Microsoft has
extended the OEM and retailer cut-off date for XP to June 30, 2008. That
gives consumers five more months to buy XP with new Windows PCs before being
required to provide Vista.
The system-builder cut-off date for XP stays at 2009. Vendors selling XP
Starter Edition on "ultra-low-cost" machines get a longer reprieve and can
sell XP through 2010. And, in spite of the later cutover date for OEMs,
nothing changes, in terms of how long Microsoft will support Windows Vista:
Microsoft will provide mainstream support through 2012 and extended support
through 2017.
Microsoft began paving the way for a longer Vista ramp-up in July, when it
began simplifying the process by which its top-tier PC partners could
downgrade Vista users to XP.
Microsoft officials insist Vista is selling well and the push back of the
cutover deadline shouldn't be interpreted as Microsoft lessening its
commitment to Vista. The company will continue to spend its Windows
marketing and support dollars on Vista, not XP.
"The one-year XP transition just turned out to be a little too ambitious,"
acknowledged Kevin Kutz, a director in the Windows client unit.
Traditionally, Microsoft has given OEMs two years to transition to a new
operating system release, Kutz said.
Some industry watchers see the move as evidence of Microsoft is being
responsive to customers and partners. Others see it as Microsoft going with
the lesser of two evils by giving users not ready to move to Vista a choice
other than defecting to Mac OSX or Linux. Even though Microsoft is likely
making a few less dollars per copy of XP sold to OEMs than it makes on a
copy of Vista, a Windows sale is still a Windows sale.
For my part, I can't help but wonder if Vista finally and irrevocably pushed
Windows into the same category as Microsoft Office, meaning that the cost
and potential risks of upgrading have come to outweigh the benefit of new
features in the eyes of many customers.
What's your take? Did Microsoft make XP Service Pack (SP) 2 too good for its
own good? Or is Vista just an off release that Microsoft should hurry up and
replace - and definitely sooner than 2010, when it is slated to roll out
Windows 7?