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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Agreed.
The multinational I work for has Solaris servers in each location, and Windows desktops.
Windows 2000 desktops to be precise.
We have a mixture of Linux and Windows XP on the personal machines they give us. The laptops and the lab machines, but the main network is still Windows 2000.
We have a few test machines with Vista on them, but, so far, they are useless as they are not compatible with the scripts in use by our network admins.
We run 24/7 and if someone in Singapore has a computer problem, the admins from UK or Brazil will remotely have a look, and fix it. Using our tools Vista will let them look, but not touch.
When a machine dies, it is replaced, sometimes with a machine with Vista, but it is immediately formatted, and Windows 2000 installed.
Until we re-write all the admin tools, we will not have a rollout to either XP or Vista.