Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jun 2008 21:28 UTC
We've already said quite a few words on this one already, so we are going to leave it at a short announcement today. Today, Monday 30 June 2008, marks the last day of sales for Windows XP, the seven year old operating system a lot of people really don't want to let go. Windows Vista is Microsoft's sole desktop operating system now, whether people like it or not. Windows XP will still be available via backdoors and on netbooks, but it won't be available at retailers anymore (some might still have some stock left, though). Feel free to place your obituary in the comments. To me, Windows XP was like cheese: it got better with age.
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2006-01-06
People were screaming about plagues and dogs-and-cats-living-together when Windows XP replaced Win2K. And what happened? XP had a significant number of problems when it launched. It was a malware target. It lacked a substantial firewall. It lacked support for USB 2.0. It took a couple service packs for Microsoft to fix a lot of these problems in XP and, now, the cycle has repeated itself all over again with Vista. Vista is a memory pig, it's slow, it lacks drivers, yadda, yadda, yadda. We've all heard these complaints. But ... Microsoft will undoubtedly continue to address these problems -- just as it did those in XP -- and we'll be hearing the same crap about Vista vs Windows 7 in another 7 years. The only common truth is that people don't like to change. Which is fine. Just don't expect the world to stand still.
Edited 2008-06-30 22:01 UTC