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Purav Sanghani - September 28, 2007 12:34 PM

116 comment(s) - last by Zoomer.. on Oct 2 at 10:14 AM

Taking into consideration customer and partner requests, Microsoft will sell Windows XP for another 5 months

In a recent press release Microsoft announced it will extend sales of its Windows XP operating system to OEMs and retail channels for five months over the initial end date, through June 30, 2008. The move comes after a great amount of feedback from customers and partners regarding the original end-of-sale date of January 31, 2008.

Mike Nash, the corporate vice president of Windows Product Management, stated, "While we’ve been pleased with the positive response we’ve seen and heard from customers using Windows Vista, there are some customers who need a little more time to make the switch to Windows Vista."

Nash went on to say that Microsoft's original policy of a four-year availability of operating systems to OEM and retail channels had been established in 2002. However, due to the delays in the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft felt that offering Windows XP for sale for an additional five months would make more sense.

When asked about what Microsoft was hearing in terms of feedback from customers regarding Windows Vista Nash stated, "With more than 60 million licenses sold as of this summer, Windows Vista is on track to be the fastest-selling operating system in Microsoft’s history."

Microsoft's Nash feels that the strong sales thus far are due to the doubling of sales of pre-built desktop and laptop computers bundled with Windows Vista as the primary OS. However, recently Microsoft also decided to offer OEMs theoption to let customers downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP.

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RE: Some Many 3rd Party Tools Not Vista Compatible

By crystal clear on 9/29/2007 6:36:50 AM , Rating: 3

They believe in the law called-

"if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

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RE: Some Many 3rd Party Tools Not Vista Compatible

By TomZ on 9/29/2007 9:31:18 AM , Rating: 2

Yes, of course, but they are also delaying the inevitable.

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RE: Some Many 3rd Party Tools Not Vista Compatible

By TomZ on 9/29/2007 9:34:39 AM , Rating: 2

In addition, we add all our apps running on Vista around a year ago. We didn't have any changes to run on Vista, because we carefully followed Microsoft coding guidelines when we coded our apps for XP.

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RE: Some Many 3rd Party Tools Not Vista Compatible

By crystal clear on 9/29/2007 10:11:58 AM , Rating: 2

yes indeed-they learn the hardway.

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RE: Some Many 3rd Party Tools Not Vista Compatible

By SavagePotato on 9/29/2007 11:41:00 AM , Rating: 2

Those are the same people that end up in hardcore panic mode when their 10 year old win98 box, which was what they relied on for keeping 100% of their accounting and buisness information on, just calved.

This is something I get to delight in a great deal with the local small buisnesses. THEN they usualy get another fun blast of reality when their 10 year old accounting package has bad floppy disks and they can't reload it, combined with the fact that their stuff is just so old, modern versions of the software from the same company won't even import their data.

That is what happens to people that rely on obsolete software out of a sheer laziness or cheapness toward updating.

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