Windows XP will never die2010-07-13 15:30 by DanielaTags: Windows XP
Microsoft originally said that new owners of Windows 7 who wanted to downgrade to XP would only have until 2011 to do so, but now the company has changed its mind and extended support for the old operating system until 2020. That's right. Windows XP, an operating system that is already almost 10 years old, will apparently still be relevant for another 10 years. "We have decided to extend downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional beyond the previously planned end date at Windows 7 SP1," wrote Microsoft in an official blog post. "Going forward, businesses can continue to purchase new PCs and utilize end user downgrade rights to Windows XP or Windows Vista until they are ready to use Windows 7." Because users did not seem to be overly outraged about Windows 7 the way everyone was about Vista, it seemed perfectly fine to cut off the remaining life of Windows XP without too much haste. And for the majority of individual computer owners, that probably wouldn't have been a problem. However, what is a problem is that 74% of businesses still use Windows XP, and for a lot of them, the cost of upgrading all of their machines to Windows 7 is not financially tenable. Thus, companies risk having old computers with Windows XP and new computers with Windows 7 which would fragment their network and make it impossible to streamline systems. Read more -here-
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YARDofSTUF - 2010-07-13 18:13
At this point its just dumb.
XP was a great operating system and I can see it being held out to 2011, but with Windows 7 showing a big improvement over Vista, XP is going to show its age well before 2020.
If feel this one is a win for everyone, and I Thank Microsoft by doing this.
This basically goes by the old saying that anything that is old, does not mean that it is unreliable or does not mean it can be improved upon. Just look at the Linux operating system, there is proof right there.
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