Contrary to all the blog buzz, Microsoft hasn't extended OEM Windows XP "downgrade" licensing by another six months. What Microsoft has done is agree to provide OEMs with Windows XP media until June 30. Surely, somebody will accuse me of playing semantics. Not so. It's called accuracy in reporting, and pretty much everybody has it wrong.The blogosphere buzzed with excitement, ridicule and accusation over the weekend about the rumored extension. Seems like anybody and everybody wagged the "We told you that Vista sucks" finger at Microsoft. I don't doubt that several OEMs want to continue offering Windows XP after Jan. 31, but they didn't need any extension to do it.
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Yeah, and it always seems to be someone by the name of Foub.
Yeah, and it always seems to be someone by the name of Foub.
I bet you can't tell what the letters in my alias stand for.
Yeah, and it always seems to be someone by the name of Foub.
I bet you can't tell what the letters in my alias stand for.
Found On Underside of Boot?
Typical TheRegister rubbish.
another vista FUD campaign.
another vista FUD campaign.
You have a SLIC BIOS then. The certificate is built-in.
/ posts this from my Vista laptop that I've been using for the last (almost) 2 years.
Have yet to find a single issue - have used Home Premium x64, Business x86, and Ultimate x86 and x64, from both the RTM and SP1. And, yes I'm posting this from my Vista Ultimate SP1 x64.
Move on, kiddies. Maybe if you guys finally grow up for once, then all the hearsay (from The Reg and PC World???? HA! Goes to show that the editors over there haven't grown up themselves anyway) and bashing would not have happened in the first place.
There, I've said my word. I'm now bowing out of it and continuing to use Vista.
"Something else: Windows 7 is coming and sooner than some analysts have speculated. The six-month XP media extension ends right about the time Microsoft should be finishing up Seven, assuming release target is holiday 2009. That's still my prediction.
Some people will say that Microsoft has given up on Windows Vista, and in some ways that's true. Microsoft's "Windows. Life Without Walls" marketing campaign isn't about Vista."
That's what I really believe is happening.
I will continue to sell and promote XP only to all of my customers until we really find out how good (or bad) Windows 7 is.
Seconded.
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