Microsoft extending XP to 2010

Beleaguered software vendor Microsoft is adding a couple of years to their spurned child, Windows XP:: ‘Michael Dix, head of Windows client product management, tells the story, “One thing we’ve heard loud and clear, from both our customers and our partners, is the desire for Windows on this new class of devices.”‘ Referring to Ultra-Low-Cost-PCs. … Continue reading “Microsoft extending XP to 2010”

Beleaguered software vendor Microsoft is adding a couple of years to their spurned child, Windows XP::

‘Michael Dix, head of Windows client product management, tells the story, “One thing we’ve heard loud and clear, from both our customers and our partners, is the desire for Windows on this new class of devices.”‘

Referring to Ultra-Low-Cost-PCs. Or ‘cheap shite’. (I’m being unfair here – they’re referring to the eee PC and the Intel Classmate). They going to continue selling XP for these devices until mid-2010 and you can purchase support for them until 2014. Meanwhile large companies are still running Windows 2000 which must be absolutely galling for the Redmond giant.

What it really does is buy Microsoft some more time, allowing them to still sell Windows while not directly admitting that Vista has been an abject failure. The unmitigated turd that was the intial Vista release and the subsequent code diarrhoea that were presented as service packs just showed how poorly Vista was thought of internally – developers worth their salt were obviously repurposed to another project more deserving of attention.

The 2010 cut-off date is around the time that Microsoft intends to ship Windows 7. Their new ultra-secretive OS development that will include the features cut from Vista (database file system for one…)

Neat way to sidestep shit Vista sales!

All sing along, “How much is that turkey in the window….the one with the Microsoft logo….”

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  1. Is this the same database file system that we were promised in Windows 95?

    I’ve said it many times, and I’ll say it here. Vista is the new ME.

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