Windows XP SP3 – And So It Ends
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversIt's the end of an era for Microsoft. Not the end of Windows XP, but the end of the XP era.
In the context in which after June 30, 2009, Microsoft will no longer permit its retail partners and original equipment manufacturers to sell the predecessor of Windows Vista, the company has not steered clear of addressing concerns about the future of XP. This, although at this point in time XP and the future seem like two concepts that fail to play well together.
Microsoft stuck firmly to the June 30, 2008 Direct OEM and Retail License Availability end date and failed to repeat the change of heart at the end of 2007 which resulted in the addition of five more months to XP's phase out process. The Redmond giant initially planned to cut off retail and OEM sales of XP at the end of January 2008, but it succumbed under the pressure coming from consumers and PC manufacturers. As a direct result, Microsoft will now stop selling Windows XP in a little over a week, on June 30.
"We love that you love Windows XP," Microsoft stated on its official "The Facts About the Future of Windows XP" website. "But our commitment to innovation sometimes means making tough choices. This is one of them." The software giant's example of innovation is of course the only Windows client left to fill in the gap of XP, namely Windows Vista. And in this regard, Microsoft seems to be struggling to convince everyone of the innovation factor and the value of Vista, especially to business customers.
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But the fact of the matter is that, outside of the end of the XP era, the actual operating system will survive well past the release of Windows 7. Just as today there are still remnants of Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows 98, so will Windows XP continue to linger well into the next decade. The reason for this is simple, a massive ecosystem of users and an environment of software and hardware solutions are orbiting around XP. So massive in fact that the very evolution of Windows is impacted. An illustrative example in this regard is the fact that Windows 7 will ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions at the end of 2009.
But XP is not dead. Not even by a long shot. Not at over 70% of the operating system market. And this is not about Service Pack 3, this is about the good old anti-Vista, XP SP2. Microsoft will continue to offer support for XP SP2 until July 13, 2010, which is two years from now. And XP SP3 will go even further than that.source:
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Comments(5)
windows xp will live a lot longer than that unless ms comes up with something that even
approaches the utility of xp and i don't see anything like that on the horizon. a
business converting over to vista would have to re-learn a lot about paper record keeping.
perhaps word processors can still fill the function that ibm machines filled in the
bookkeeping world of the 60's? in any event, it looks like i'll have to get sp3 into
these machines as soon as possible. and he did, they did and the bears did!
this is probably the 20th "death of windows xp" article, its getting boring.
plus, in the comments you see the same vista vs xp arguements, over and over again and
no-one will change their opinion just by reading someones comment here.
if you want to make money then invest in apple (mac). most people i know that have bought
computers with vista have converted them to xp because they just don't like vista.
microsoft boasts of all their vista sales but don't mention this fact. many large
corporations refuse to switch to vista. windows 7 appears to be vista with a different
face. just a few short facts that microsoft has ignored but apple has picked up and is
using to promote their os. maybe the switch to mac's has been slow but now that windows
can be installed on a separate partition on a mac maybe we will see users thinking twice
about buying a pc with only windows. bill gates says that microsoft's success was not
what they did, but what their competition didn't do. he should look in the mirror and
repeat that statement. big business might want to look at going to macs since most of them
have to redo their software for vista and who knows when microsoft will come up with
something new and incompatible. the mac's with side by side os's allow a slower
conversion to mac then the overnight conversion from xp to vista. just for the record, i
don't work for apple but my next computer will be a mac. i have yet to talk with anyone
who has switched to a mac that has regretted it.
i think "wubbles" might work
for microsoft. he/she in their comment "again" has the attitude of "get over it as
vista is here". this maybe true but their are options. these comment sections are for
people to express their thoughts on what is happening and if you think they are "getting
boring" then don't bother reading them. your comments are certainly a waste of space.
plus i must tell you guys, i am also seeking man to man love.
no i didn't post under your name, someone else did that.
but now after
reading what you have said i have to agree that you are "seeking man to man love" as the
imposter so elegantly puts it.
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