Wednesday, January 24th 2007
Windows XP to live on
Microsoft has decided to bow to pressure from users and give Windows XP Home Edition an extension on its lifetime, giving users at least an extra year of support. Microsoft had originally planned to end free support in January 2009, but the company's Japanese president has said that "It will be significantly extended," continuing "When I say significantly, it's more than 1 year." An official announcement is expected on Thursday, but this means users should be secure with Windows XP up until 2010, possibly for longer.
Source:
The Inquirer
36 Comments on Windows XP to live on
Hats off to Microsoft for doing something friendly and amping up the support cycle, but let's face it, XP has hit its peak and is slowly dying from here on. Is it worth bleating about how Microsoft are horrible and it's all Bill Gates' fault (even though he has nothing to do with the major decisions) when in reality, it'd be better to invest in the new OS and run a dualboot setup?
Start early with the new setup and you might just be able to work all the kinks out of it early on in the piece, rather than just wondering when some russian dude is gonna manually manipulate DX10 out of Vista into an installable package for XP.
I honestly think Vista will do pretty good, and the constant Vista Sucks tripe that's been flying around here constantly should stop. Most of the anti-Vista sentiment comes from people who don't run it, and indeed lots of people migrated from starting on a 9x platform straight to Windows XP.
I've had almost every MS OS that's existed, bar the server end stuff and perhaps NT 3.51 PPC. Yes, I used Windows 1.0. From past experience, MS usually updates something, there's uproar that it's unrequired and it's poop, then it turns commonplace. The cycle repeats.
Not only that, but its timing is terrible. Many people were begging and pleading for them to finally put *something* out, and its right after all the IT guys finally got their IT budgets approved to upgrade from the crap windows 98 machines that are dieing left and right, with standardized windows XP dell boxes.
XP around here, is going to stay for another 5-8 years.
we CANT and ARENT going to upgrade to vista on any of our machines.. and we're of 50 some factorys with 500+ pc's.
You make your assumptions from a consumer view. Microsoft makes their decisions from a market view. They screwed this one up.
Then again, so did intel. These are all P4 pc's, just a wee too late to be core duos.
of course if it annoys me too much i will make their customer service department pay :D