On September 27, Microsoft has extended the cut-off regarding when Computer makers is going to be permitted to continue on to promote Windows XP with new devices.Till now, January thirty, 2008, was the Microsoft-imposed deadline for system vendors to cease offering Windows XP on all new OEM machines. (Method builders,
Microsoft Office 2010 Pro, a k a white-box vendors, had a longer deadline: January thirty, 2009.) But as a result of feedback from customers and partners, Microsoft has prolonged the OEM and retailer cut-off date for XP to June 30,
Office 2010 Key, 2008. That gives consumers 5 more months to acquire XP with new Windows PCs just before being necessary to supply Vista.The system-builder cut-off date for XP stays at 2009. Vendors selling XP Starter Edition on “ultra-low-cost” devices get a lengthier reprieve and can offer XP through 2010. And, in spite of the later cutover date for OEMs, nothing changes, in terms of how long Microsoft will support Windows Vista: Microsoft will give mainstream support through 2012 and prolonged support through 2017.Microsoft began paving the way for a lengthier Vista ramp-up in July, when it began simplifying the process by which its top-tier Computer partners could downgrade Vista users to XP.Microsoft officials insist Vista is selling well and the push back of the cutover deadline shouldn;t be interpreted as Microsoft lessening its commitment to Vista. The company will proceed to spend its Windows marketing and support dollars on Vista,
Windows 7 64bit, not XP.“The one-year XP transition just turned out to get a little too ambitious,” acknowledged Kevin Kutz, a director in the Windows client unit. Traditionally,
Office Ultimate 2007, Microsoft has given OEMs two years to transition to a new operating system release, Kutz said.Some industry watchers see the move as evidence of Microsoft is becoming responsive to consumers and partners. Others see it as Microsoft heading with the lesser of two evils by giving users not ready to move to Vista a choice other than defecting to Mac OSX or Linux. Even though Microsoft is likely making a few less dollars per copy of XP sold to OEMs than it makes on a copy of Vista, a Windows sale is still a Windows sale.For my part, I can;t help but wonder if Vista finally and irrevocably pushed Windows into the same category as Microsoft Office,
Windows 7 Serial, meaning that the cost and potential risks of upgrading have come to outweigh the benefit of new features in the eyes of many clients.What;s your take? Did Microsoft make XP Service Pack (SP) 2 too good for its own good? Or is Vista just an off release that Microsoft should hurry up and replace — and definitely sooner than 2010, when it is slated to roll out
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