Microsoft Extends XP Sales To Give Customers More Time To Move To Vista
- September 28th, 2007
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Windows Vista hasn’t exactly taken off as Microsoft hoped it would and now it’s been forced to keep XP on store shelves for an additional five months. Originally scheduled to end-of-life in January, you’ll now still be able to buy Vista through June 30. Officially, Microsoft will keep selling XP in order to give people more time to transition from XP to Vista. Sure, I believe that…
Could it be, maybe, that XP is simply better than Vista (and that IT guys, justifiably paranoid they may be, have little to no incentive to change from XP to Vista)? And now that Microsoft lets you downgrade to XP, you do wonder who was in charge of this whole Vista mess.
We’ll see show Apple handles Leopard’s release in a few weeks.
bobo e
2007-09-28 09:32:46
Microsoft wins either way. If the customer doesn’t want Vista they still are buying XP licenses
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christian gehrke
2007-09-28 12:16:48
I have a feeling Apple will do just fine with the new Leopard upgrade considering it was fine the last 5 times with Cheetah and Puma, Jaguar, Panther, and Tiger.
Each upgrade worked flawlessly for me and pretty much everyone else who decided to upgrade.
Ok Cheetah was a bit rough because it was the first version of OSX but the rest were as smooth as silk and I upgraded as soon as I possibly could.
I will also upgrade to Leopard the very first day it becomes available like most other serious mac users.
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Mike W
2007-09-28 17:47:54
” Image of some low level Microsoft employee” lol Gave me a lagh.
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