XP Still Supported

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I see many new netbooks still being promoted with XP as their OS of
choice. Does this mean that MS will continue to support XP for the
forseeable future?
 
In Richard Cranium typed on Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:46:20 GMT:
I see many new netbooks still being promoted with XP as their OS of
choice. Does this mean that MS will continue to support XP for the
forseeable future?
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Does Microsoft have a choice? If they drop it, netbooks will be going to
favor Linux. I have one netbook (I have five of them) with Windows 7.
And I am not one bit impressed with it at all. But this is what
Microsoft wants netbook manufactures to use. I don't think it will go
well. Unless netbooks starts getting a lot more power. <grin>
 
WinXP SP3 (only) is in Extended Support phase. While no bugs will be
addressed nor will any additional functionality be offered, computers
running WinXP SP3 (only) will be offered criticial security updates until
April 2014.
 
BillW50 said:
In Richard Cranium typed on Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:46:20 GMT:

Does Microsoft have a choice? If they drop it, netbooks will be going to
favor Linux. I have one netbook (I have five of them) with Windows 7.
And I am not one bit impressed with it at all. But this is what
Microsoft wants netbook manufactures to use. I don't think it will go
well. Unless netbooks starts getting a lot more power. <grin>
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Netbooks aren't for customers who need power... they're for the folks
who just want to do email and surf the 'net, and they're more than
sufficient for those purposes.
 
In Bennett Marco typed on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:33:04 -0500:
Netbooks aren't for customers who need power... they're for the folks
who just want to do email and surf the 'net, and they're more than
sufficient for those purposes.
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I don't know many users that actually need more power than a netbook.
And I think this surprised the experts (although I was not). As early on
many of them didn't expect netbooks to be a big hit. But they were and
millions of these things are sold every year.

The few that doesn't like netbooks usually have two complaints. The
keyboard and/or the screen are too small. Few complain that it doesn't
have enough power. I had five of them myself. Although I gave one away
to my nephew for school. <vbg>
 
BillW50 said:
In Bennett Marco typed on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:33:04 -0500:



I don't know many users that actually need more power than a netbook.
And I think this surprised the experts (although I was not). As early on
many of them didn't expect netbooks to be a big hit. But they were and
millions of these things are sold every year.

The few that doesn't like netbooks usually have two complaints. The
keyboard and/or the screen are too small. Few complain that it doesn't
have enough power. I had five of them myself. Although I gave one away
to my nephew for school. <vbg>
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Looks like XP will be available on Netbooks for one more year.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize...argain-netbooks-544?source=rss_infoworld_news
 
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