WinXP - The OS that wouldn't die

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

http://www.techspot.com/news/35154-Windows-7-to-XP-downgrade-extended-by-a-year.html

"Microsoft has prolonged the availability of its Windows XP downgrade option
from Windows 7. Redmond’s plan of abandoning the downgrade 6 months after
the new operating system’s release in October has been extended by 12 more
months, or until its first service pack is seen. This stretches the
availability time-frame until about April of 2011."

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Friday, June 19, 2009 7:24:41 PM, and on a whim,
PA Bear [MS MVP] pounded out on the keyboard:

http://www.techspot.com/news/35154-Windows-7-to-XP-downgrade-extended-by-a-year.html

"Microsoft has prolonged the availability of its Windows XP downgrade option
from Windows 7. Redmond’s plan of abandoning the downgrade 6 months after
the new operating system’s release in October has been extended by 12 more
months, or until its first service pack is seen. This stretches the
availability time-frame until about April of 2011."

MS has finally realized that most users just want a stable OS that will
run their apps and use their hardware. XP has done that. No networks I
admin care about Aero or whatever newer features are being offered.
They just need to get their work done.

I've been running Win7 and it works okay for the most part. But there
is some critical software that won't work on it and that makes XP the
only option (it runs on W2k also but I'm slowly retiring all the older
OS's on this workstation).


Terry R.