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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"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."
You make it sound like it's such a cut-and-dry decision for large companies to just say "hmm...let's move to an entirely new platform." That is not the case, and most certainly if they have mission critical apps that were designed to run on XP, then they most definitely wouldn't just upgrade for the sake of upgrading. New platforms have to offer some sort of value for new application development...convincing companies to rewrite existing apps is a lose-lose scenario.
I work in IT (as a programmer) for a Global 500 company, and Vista isn't even on our 12 month horizon. We'll actually upgrade most of our servers to Windows Server 2008 long before we start general deployment of Vista to the desktop for one reason alone: The value is many times more apparent.