Re: Continued Availability of Windows XP

I've been told by my distributor that I will be to buy OEM copies of XP Home and
XP Pro until June 30, 2008. Of course, that is 4 months away, and a lot can
happen in the meantime. The decidedly underwhelming success of Vista (WOW!)
will cause customers to continue to demand XP or else. This is turn will bring
pressure on Microsoft by Dell, HPaq, GateMachines, Lenove and others (especially
companies with HQ in the EU) to continue with XP. My crystal ball shows
Micro$oft caving to pressure and extending XP sales until the end of the year,
at minimum.

Interestingly, the last half dozen or so OEM XP Pros I've bought all have the
notation that the product keys are different than previous ones. So the Windows
install CD media and product keys are not interchangable between old and new
series. Apparently Microsoft ran out of product keys and had to imagine some
new ones. The beat goes on.

What Dell will do is anybody's guess. My guess is consistent with the above.
Dell, if no other, will continue selling machines with XP. HPaq will also do
so with its extensive number of large corproate and government customers as long
as they can... Ben Myers

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:54:59 -0500, "Daddy" <daddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I read somewhere that Microsoft will continue selling Windows XP until June, 2008. Does that mean I have until June to buy a Dell PC with XP, or could Dell stop selling PCs with XP even sooner?

Daddy
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