Windows XP Shelf Life
Microsoft Extends Windows XP Shelf Life By Bryan Gardiner EmailSeptember 28, 2007 Fine…we'll wait. That's the official party line from Microsoft today as the company agreed to alter its phase-out plans for Windows XP by five months. Citing the fact that many of its customers needed more time to make the switch to Vista, Mike Nash (pictured right), Microsoft's Windows product manager, admitted that the company may have been "...a little ambitious to think that we would need to make Windows XP available for only a year after the release of Windows Vista." In a statement released today, Microsoft says it will now push back the XP cut off date from the end of January to the end of June. After continuous petitioning by customers, Dell eventually agreed to start reselling computers with XP pre-installed after the it switched to Vista last January for home use. Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo quickly followed suit and offered similar downgrades. Despite these trends, Microsoft maintains that its decision was in now way related to slow demand for Vista, or general reluctance to upgrade. Nash claimed that Vista is gearing up to be the company's fas-*test*-('") selling OS in history, with more than 60 million Vista licenses being sold since the beginning of the summer. I wonder if the company's tracking how many customers chose to downgrade?

Yeah, I've been thinking about this for awhile (and doing some price checking) and I was going to see if my parents wouldn't mind downgrading to XP. To me, after working with Vista this past year and seeing how incompatible it is with what was once reliable software, I'll never recommend Vista to anyone. My parents didn't have much choice in the matter since, when they bought the new computer it came with the OEM Vista installation pre-installed.

I read somewhere (I forget the source or I would post it) that Microsoft knows about the publics limited acceptance to Vista's extremely resistive security & has already began working on another OS. They also, however, recommend that you still get Vista, over XP, despite it's draw-backs.

is Vista pulling an AOL?
A while back I heard that AOL claimed to have so many millions in sales. But this was not true. What was really going on was that AOL was pretending that ALL of there "AOL free trial disks" were actual sales. So when you saw a box of 100 free trial disks on the store counter, that was 100 signed up users (in AOL's mind). Here is the closest link I could find about the false sales at AOL : http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2005/01/10/daily18.html here is an example of how many free disks are sent to one person: http://www.rightgood.com/log/uploaded_images/aol-cds-737196.jpg AOL has changed: http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-2-2006-104249.asp It makes me wonder if Windows Vista is doing good because Microsoft is forcing onto consumers? For example are they counting pre-installed OS's as sales, and what about computers with vista that have not been sold yet? Are all those PC's in Best Buys warehouse counted as sold copy's of Vista? Vista sounds like another AOL "Adding new art, Adding new art, Adding new art"

I can't help but wonder why microsoft would like to close down xp when xp was the product that gave them the most sales...