Sales of Windows XP extended from 2008 till 2010

Jacky · intel inside Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 3794

I happened to chance upon the following article when SolidRaven posted it in the OS war thread.

http://www.itworld.com/Comp/22.....10-080403/

I personally support the idea of extending the sales deadline, since most of us who uses Windows are still on Windows XP (including me), since Windows Vista is either incompatible for most people or people don't prefer it (me for example).

And a few months ago I purchased the retail version of Windows XP Professional so that I can still install it even if the stores stopped providing it. I didn't have any retail version since my computers all came with Windows XP pre-installed, and they were mostly modified by the manufacturer.

What do you think of this extension?

Since this is a very sensitive issue, I hope Linux and Mac users don't hijack this thread. If you have a constructive comment, feel free to reply. If you just plainly hate Microsoft and their products, then just stay away.
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SE13 · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:19 am Post subject:

As I understand it, Vista is still quite unstable, much as ME was to 98. I will stick with XP anyway, as it is by far the best version I have ever seen.

So the news that they will still allow purchase for a couple more years pleases me, as I intend to replace my system completely within the next couple of years.

Good for Microsoft for doing this as well.
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ClickFanatic · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject:

As it is now, it will take a long time before I switch to Vista. Driver support seems buggy, some games only work with patches and there might be some minor issues that I can't (and don't want to) mention right now. I simply refer to these problems as 'growing pains.'

That said, I think it's a good decision to extend support for Windows XP, but I hope MS will deal with the Vista issues quickly so consumers have something reliable to switch to once XP becomes more outdated.
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mcwkm · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject:

only reason to use windows vista lacks. microsoft sees new notebooks coming out not capable of running vista well so they are refusing to give up part of the market share.

Scar · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject:

People always say vista doesn't have good driver support, but that is totally untrue. AS with the situation with the Creative company. The company was purposely putting out bad vista drivers for its products so the users will have to buy the newer product, and there is a big fuss on their forums about this right now because a member started fixing their drivers for Vista. so it's really not a problem with Vista itself. It's the companies who create the products and arent updating them to work right vista.

I've been on vista for months now without one singe driver issue. all my parts were made for it and i love it.

I think that its a good idea to extend the deadline because by 2010 surely people will wiser up and/or the prices of the new hardware and gadgets will be much lower and easier to afford. My vista read pc was only around $500 or so so it wasnt much. get newer hardware for their pc that was actually designed for Vista. And then they'll notice that their previous Vista problems have faded away.

i also support the deadline because it's good to put old technology to rest at some point and continue with the new.
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ClickFanatic · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:24 am Post subject:

Scar · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:31 am Post subject:

ClickFanatic · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:19 am Post subject:

Scar · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:27 am Post subject:

ClickFanatic · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:09 am Post subject:

Scar · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:00 pm Post subject:

ClickFanatic · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:47 am Post subject:

spock · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:18 am Post subject:

mcwkm · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:24 am Post subject:

I have yet to look into what windows 7 is suppose to be but as far as what vista is compared to what it was suppose to be when it was still being developed, it(vista) failed to deliver. Vista does just seem like another Me sure its a little different and in some cases better but overall its not that drastic of an improvement(besides looks) that it is worth upgrading from xp.
As far as compatibility goes with you can make vista run on older systems if you know what your doing but when you look at average windows users, they are hopeless when it comes to this. My old roommate had vista running on his 3 year old dell laptop not sure the specs but it was using pentium centrino i believe as a cpu, its not the hardware that is the problem, it is the user and the amount of work to get the slight improvements vista offers.

Scar · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:38 am Post subject:

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