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
Good point and no offense but the amount of times, usually on a departmental basis, some fool of a manager has pushed the idea of an upgrade for whatever reason has been a large bone of contention for both myself and many sys admins I have worked with.
Only recently, in my experience, have companies started to take the 'IT guys' allot more seriously. I remember one bank I was working for where a director decided that he absolutely had to run his Minidisc NetMD apps on his company workstation. We where running Win2k on all our internal desktops at the time, yet he needed WinXP to be fully compatible with his home setup.
At the time, we had lots of internally developed apps that where having teething problems with XP, and the reason why we hadn't even considered upgrading was the relative immaturity of pre-SP1 WinXP. But all these arguments fell on deaf ears.
As far as this (financial) director was concerned, if his desktop could not run the latest version of his app, then there was something fundamentally wrong with the OS and we, the IT department, where just a bunch of lazy sods for not having upgraded the entire bank's PCs. It took our manager two weeks of all kinds of tactics to stop a company wide roll out of WinXP, because telling your boss that he should mind his own department requires quite a delicate touch.
Granted, it has been a few years since I was in a similar situation, but you make it sound like this kind of situation doesn't happen. Believe me, it happens all the time.