Say Good-bye to XP?
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So yesterday we said goodbye to Bill Gates and it looks like starting on today Microsoft is going to stop selling XP to retailers and computer manufacturers. (We mentioned before in a previous post back in May about users making a petition so that Microsoft won’t take XP off of the shelves.)
Microsoft realizes that many users aren’t going to be happy with their decision, but again users weren’t happy when they took Windows 98, 95 and Me taken off of the shelves. Wait, Ha, did we say ME? Yeah right, huge cow pattie of an OS right there in our opinion.
Anyway, now just because XP is going off of the shelves for some thing, like retailers and manufacturers, doesn’t mean we have seen the last of it yet. (WHOOT! 
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Now the plan, until June 2010, is to have manufacturers of limited, low-cost computers still have the chance to put XP HOME on their machine. That’s right, just home. Plus, if you are a small business and you build your own computer, well you’ll be able to install XP on it…only until Jaunary 31st 2009.
Oh and If you have bought a new PC that has either Vista Business or Vista Ultimate on it, well then you still do have the option to downgrade your OS to XP Pro, again, only until January 31st 2009.
What we like about this is that it looks like Microsoft has been taking a look into what their users want and even though their are restrictions, we can still obtain XP, even for a little while.
And for all of you faithful XP Users, well Microsoft is still going to allow for mainstream support on the operating system until next April.
Oh and remember in our previous post about XP and the petition… Have you all been keeping your eyes on that petition?
Maybe not and that’s okay.
The ‘Save Windows XP’ petition garnered over 209,000 signatures. Not too shabby right? No wonder Microsoft acknowledged the petition and their efforts.
Nicely done
PS – We will be going through the poll from Friday and post about that a little later today to map out our post plan for the next month.
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John Cow dot ComSay Good-bye to XP?Posted: 29 Jun 2008 11:14 PM CDT
XP has been a work horse for many computer users, but it is getting long in the tooth. It is inevitable that they will phase it out unless the rest of the computing world stands still and stops making advances. In that case XP’s aging technology and architecture would be just fine.
No need for a petition and my bet is that most people who have signed it are just doing so out of a knee-jerk reaction for some reason or another. Vista certainly isn’t going to replace XP (at least not in its current state), but there needs to be something coming down the pipe in the next few years.
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Although, XP had a place ,that can not be easy to fillup,we need a better softwear than XP .We need a change and a new brand with more facilities.May be microsoft will devlop it may be god knows
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It sure would be nice if the OS manufacturer could get the product right BEFORE it is released for purchase at exorbitantly high prices!!!
If I want to install XP on my computer 50 years from now, why shouldn’t I be able to do so. It belongs to me after I purchase it legally.
This is so frustrating. Is Microsoft going to reimburse me for all the new hardware that I have to buy because it won’t work with Vista? I doubt it. And they wonder why they’re losing market share to Apple! I am a PC guy and have condemned Apple fanboys for years, but I am seriously considering making my next computer purchase a Mac. Then I will be free of all this hassle once and for all.
Well, we Microsoft Partners tried to keep XP too!!! Believe it or not there were more of us than on the petition. We had to move to Vista in order to remain partners… then the bottom hit. Nothing worked. Or businesses relied on our computers. WELL… I don’t know what happened. I hope they know certain programs will not update their software to be compatible with VISTA. Maybe they are trying to force the hand. I do not belive it will happen. When the time comes… watch the MACS go to town on sales. Then maybe they will re-evaluate. I will get on the horn again to some of my “pals” there. I say that loosely as it appears they have thrown us under the bus.
Vista just won’t work for me in business. It is too slow, too much of a resource hog… and much more negatives then positives.
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Cheers,
Bets
Well, ’speaking’ as a dummy with little technical know how, I say bring back Windows 98. In my opinion, it was their best OS.
I used to run my first PC on Win 95, without the patches. Heck, I didn’t even know what a patch was twelve years ago. Show you how much of a dummy I reall was/am. By the time I was told about the fixes, MS no longer supported 95.
I have been using Linux for years and have found very few things that I cannot do with a Linux based OS that I could do with an MS product.
There are times when there might be an issue with some piece of hardware, but so far I’m quite happy with Open SuSe 10.3 – and the nice thing – it’s free! One of these days, I’ll add up all the software expenses I haven’t had to pay by making the switch to Linux years ago.
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XP should be dropped. It makes too much sense.
They are getting sales off Vista because now people have it installed, albeit against their will, and need support from it. More and more business if being done through Vista because it is becoming a new medium for doing business… especially off of things like the new version of Microsoft Office.
Cut XP, make more profit. Damn, they are smart
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Vista incompatibility will stick me whit XP for
few more months but this is logic
step to push Vista on market.
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I can’t leave my XP
and i won’t. It work still fine in my pc.
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re: Kevin Puls… Win98 the best? What?!
Major advancements where made with 2k and XP as far as system stability and security that was completely lacking or non-existent in Win9x.
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