Is it finally bye-bye to Windows XP?
With the apparent success of Windows 7, is Microsoft really ready to retire the decade old Windows XP?
Microsoft “has commited to offering [the OS] for another year”, according to The Register, which means that by 2011 (or as early as 2010), every new Microsoft machine will come with a version of Windows 7, and it’s so long, farewell to XP. Don Paterson, head of Microsoft netbooks business was quoted saying “As much as we make Windows XP available for a year, we won’t see it last in the market that long”.
Does this mean that support for Windows XP will also stop? I mean, I can understand any halt on marketing efforts because, come on, XP is ten years old! Someone who doesn’t know what it is must be living under a rock for the last decade. And Microsoft didn’t market XP much on netbooks, I think. It was just… there.
But people who still use XP and are unwilling to upgrade their machines will, sooner or later, need or want support. I don’t think calling Microsoft tech support and hearing “you need to upgrade to Windows 7″ is a very consumer-oriented troubleshooting step.
There are of course, pros and cons to both staying with and upgrading from Windows XP. I don’t see consumers, especially big businesses, to scramble to upgrade all their computers with Windows 7 Home Premium unless they’re buying new machines. Sure, upgrade is as easy as clicking your heels together, but XP is still a solid, reliable OS, no matter what Microsoft says.
Okay, so I’m not helping Windows 7 any, but I feel compeled to defend XP LOL
Did I mention that there’s a scramble of deals on Windows XP-based netbooks? You can check our netbooks deals
here.
via TheRegister
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