Back by popular demand: Windows XP

[l a u r e n]

depends what you use your pc for really no? in businesses that *use* pc's to work most people ive come across could care less what OS or even hardware they are running as long as they can do their jobs people like us whose job it is to *make* the stuff others use do care cos we're like that ... we want the new and the shiny and the different frankly i could care less what OS i use to get my work done as long as it works for me (and i tend to work in linux most of the time anyways) but the thought of spending a bundle to get shiny new toys isnt really appealing ... especially when vista clearly isnt ready for prime time yet just my 2c...

"there is no spoon" {me}

[Mike Poz]

Marc Clifton wrote:

Good for Dell! Microsoft must be rolling over in their grave.

From a business standpoint, Microsoft doesn't really care right now either way. Think about it: Microsoft still gets money, regardless of which version of Windows is installed on Dell's computers right now. Additionally Microsoft has stated that XP will be available for a while still. Through the end of the year if I remember the articles correctly. And support will be for some finite number of years beyond the release of Windows Vista. There's a webpage somewhere on the Microsoft website that has those dates. The problem with still selling XP is that eventually Microsoft's support for it will disappear, regardless of the customer install base. That's not going to happen any time soon, but it will happen, and when it does, one of two things will have happened. Either it won't matter because the EU fined Microsoft out of existance, or customers will finally move on to some other operating system, be it a newer version of Windows, or some other offering. I still run XP and I have a spare copy of Professional for when the time comes that I finally get a new computer. Probably a notebook. But eventually Vista will be a decent platform worth running on whatever computer I have, and when it is, I'll use it.

Mike Poz

[Rocky Moore]

They were happy with MS DOS :)

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