Microsoft Grants XP Longer Life
by Taylor Flatt on December 22nd, 2008 at 12:26 pm EDT - 278 views
Microsoft has seen the light and has given distributers a longer time to ship XP. However, they still have to buy the licenses before the January 31st date, they can now ship through May 30th. Microsoft has changed their shipping dates for XP 4 times since the release of Vista, which has plagued them with bad press and bugs since the beginning. With this extension, XP has now become the longest “living” operating system just before Windows 95.
With all the growing disconent with Vista, XP has become the golden boy of Microsoft that they seem to not want. With Windows 7 coming out in the next year or two, they are hoping to finally shelve both products and release a decent product. Even though this could happen, I am still skeptical when it comes to Microsoft. Not only do they rush things, but they sometimes release prematuraly which causes problems for everyone (Remember Sony’s PS3?).
I am just like everyone when it comes to hoping they put out a good system come release. But with all the people switching to Mac, I don’t believe MS will get near the numbers it is wanting and might deam this product a failure as well.
Source: TGDaily
Category: Operating Systems
Tags: Microsoft, Operating Systems, Vista, Windows 7, XP
There are 4 comments so far
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Nathaniel Ed - posted on December 22nd, 2008 at 5:12 PM MST - Link
Win or fail?
Win because they brought back XP
Fail because… they brought back XP, because Vista fails. Double fail lol.
2 fails – 1 win = 1 fail.
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Taylor Flatt - posted on December 22nd, 2008 at 5:26 PM MST - Link
Hahaha, well they haven’t really “brought it back”. They have only extended the length of sale so really they are just buying themselves time. Until Windows 7 comes out, they are definitely “failing”.
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Bradley Wint - posted on December 22nd, 2008 at 7:29 PM MST - LinkHey, Windows 7 is the only hope, so it’s XP for now yo.
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Taylor Flatt - posted on December 22nd, 2008 at 7:37 PM MST - Link
Yeah…They need to come out with something awesome and quick or it will be a failure.
I think I will stick with XP until Windows 7 is proven to be good because I now hold doubts since Vista came along. :/
