Microsoft will be extending the Windows XP downgrade option until 2011. While Microsoft has threatened to halt the option on numerous occasions, it has yet to set a date, write it in stone and actually make good on the promise.Windows XP has been the corner stone for Microsoft as Windows Vista was largely rejected by businesses and consumers due to its initial rocky start. With Windows 7 right around the corner Microsoft will be looking to phase out XP but still must do so in a cautious manor.
The reason behind the extension was that the Windows XP downgrade option was originally set to take place 6 months after the launch of 7 and business that have large scale Windows XP deployments may not be ready to convert to Windows 7 in as little as six months, or at least stop purchasing OEM systems with it as an option. As a result, the option to downgrade to XP has been extended to 2011. Enterprise customers on Microsoft's Software Assurance program can downgrade Windows 7 licenses all the way back to Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51.
Windows XP has been given an extended stay of execution but its not expected Microsoft will keep the dated OS on life support forever. With Windows 7 receiving high praise for its stability and usability, look for corporate wide rollouts of Windows 7 in the next 12-18 months.
Won't last forever, thankfully.
Exactly
When that time comes, everyone will be running Linux.
Actual support won't stop until 2014, still has 5 years to go. I guess that's not forever.
In the retail channel, let that 6 months expire after Win7's release.
At work I have to use XP, at home it's Vista 64bit and soon it'll be Win7 64bit.
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The problem is that if these companies who have 50k+ PCs running XP buy 100 new PCs. They can't really have Vista or 7 running on the PCs because then they would have to support 2 separate environment (for patches and helpdesk support)
This all takes longer than one would think. Hell, we're in the process of rolling out IE7 and you wouldn't believe the amount of users that call up the Helpdesk with questions on how to use Tabs, where to find this and that. You'd think they'd have it on their machines at home after all this time and would know how to use if by now.
And the DTV is still a mess with some stations not being picked up. I been picking up Digital stations just fine for over a year but now I cant get two stations after a rescan. Im not the only one who is missing the stations when I checked online.
When Microsoft finally pulls the plug - which at this rate will be around 2040 - people will starting complaining then saying that it wass "too soon" and they "didn't have enough warning".
Yes. Just like DTV .
I hope it does but I wont be holding my breath, I'm hanging onto my money this time around until some credible unbiased reviews come in after win 7 is released, obviously I wont be checking neowin for a review.
I hope it does but I wont be holding my breath, I'm hanging onto my money this time around until some credible unbiased reviews come in after win 7 is released, obviously I wont be checking neowin for a review.
I think you only show up to troll. Go away.
or it this the thread where everyone who won't upgrade because vista/7 is the suck soap box?
all i can say is that if you don't upgrade to 7 you are missing something. it is all that they say it is. i use the RC and it is fast, reliable and runs my old hardware better than xp ever did. imho
That's true but not upgrading because winxp is the "best" is ludicrous, and no one needs to upgrade really.
thier are many reasons to upgrade but larger companies have a problem with the cost they say. it will actually cost more to support winxp when 7 comes out. 7 will run anything that xp has on it and the newer hardware that comes out will be supported by 7, not xp. i worked at a large company and we operated in mixed mode;2000 and xp. they are jumping to vista next year(before i got laid off they said the were) but they should just wait for 7 and the complications will be few if you ask me.
most of the problem is with lazy IT. they just don't want to do it because it's to much like work.
personally i go by the rule if its not broke dont fix it and i'm still running xp too. its lightning quick on my core 2 quad, even more so than vista/7. as much as i love windows 7 i still keep coming back to xp
install vanilla XP , then comeback
This could quite possibly be the most incorrect thing I've ever read, and I once read that blue and red were the same color.
XP is boring. I still using it beacuse of my PC, I dont have money to upgrade PC parts or neither buy a new one
Personally I don't use a computer to look at the OS, in fact the less I see of it the better. A computer is a tool, and the only thing I want to see is the software I run on it.
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