Windows XP refuses to let go! Or so it seems looking by the happenings at Redmond. Apparently, recent reports coming out suggest that Microsoft is reconsidering the decision to stop shipping a Windows XP Recovery disk for customers of OEM systems - for now. If you're still unaware, customers having OEM systems shipped with Vista Business or Vista Ultimate pre-installed do have an option to "downgrade" to XP if they choose to. However, the last date for providing such media was 31st January 2009 for all OEMs. It is this date that has been reportedly postponed to July 31, 2009!
If thats not all, the company is considering extending the deadline even further. This comes at a time when Microsoft is busy promoting Vista with a 300 million dollar marketing campaign which like Vista, has not managed to hit the mark so far.
Prima facie, it seems this is an attempt to give users the option to stick with XP and then directly switch over to Windows 7, the Vista successor which is scheduled to arrive some time next year. It remains to be seen how good (or bad) a strategy this turns out to be.
3 comments:
wat after six months...vista will cover all round
hmm.. lets see.. At least the initial look of Windows 7 hasn't impressed me so far.
Windows 7 is spiced up VISTA & an attempt to push hardware sales.
Xp simply rocks, gets ALL my work done using decent resources, is rarely power-hungry & can be tweaked to one's desire.
It would seriously take a Gargantuan effort for me to switch to latter versions of Windows. I have completely side-lined VISTA successfully till date & I do not regret it.
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