Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Sep 2007 21:48 UTC
"Responding to feedback from customers and third parties, Microsoft has extended the availability of Windows XP to both original equipment manufacturers and retail channels through to June 30, 2008. Originally slated to be pulled from retail shelves and OEMs on January 30, 2008 - only a year after Windows Vista's debut - customers requested more time to prepare for the upgrade to Vista."
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2006-12-28
...to let XP go, that much is obvious. I'm glad OEMs are getting tougher with MS and putting they're feet down about this. I certainly would not like to be involved with a forced upgrade for a large company with many custom or in house apps that need tweaking for them to run on Vista.
An interesting part of the article is the much longer availability of XP in third world countries. The fact that MS feels most new machines in the third world will not be able to run XP before June 2010 is quite an eye opener for me. I knew there was a difference, but 3 years in the IT world is forever.