Posted on 11/9/2007, 2:53:10 AM by cornfedcowboy
I sell computerized equipment to manufacturers. My customer is claiming tat XP is going to be obsolete in a few months. Will I still be able to provide my equipment wth XP for at least the next year or so? Please help. FR tech support is much appreciated.
I haven’t heard anyone in my company mention the successor, whatever its name. We’re still on XP and will remain for the foreseeable future. New Dell laptaps get loaded with XP. That’s all I know. I can’t imagine MS cutting it off now, as the acceptance of Vista has been less than enthusiastic in the business world.
XP will be around for a while.
Most computers I see on the market have either the 64-bit XP or Vista installed on them.
When Vista was released places like Best Buy wouldn’t sell anything else — no XP in the house. Then it became available again, but I don’t know if the big chains would sell it or not. My company has several thousand licenses of XP and we aren’t even discussing a migration yet. Don’t let’em bully you. XP will be around for as long as the eye can see,
They’re still working on SP3, and have committed to mainstream support until at least the end of 2008. Paid support will likely continue for a few years beyond that.
The new laptop that my university handed out to me is loaded with XP and it was stated by their tech department that Vista will be many, many, many years in the future for them. So I have a feeling that XP will be around a long time.
Probably talking about the Product Support Lifecycle. Windows XP mainstream support end in April 2009.
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&C2=1173&x=10&y=17
That said, Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista is currently in beta. I would suggest reviewing how you can transition your newly deployed systems over the course of the next 6 months.
Right. You can use whatever version you want as long as you want. I was using Windows 98 up until the time Windows XP Service Pack 2 was released.
My advice is for those who are still worried or wondering, use whatever you want, but just remember, Microsoft will stop providing technical support for so long after a operating system has been released into the open.
They stopped providing tech support for Windows 98 about the same time Windows XP Service Pack 2 came out.
I got my son a new notebook this summer and it came with Vista Home Basic. Talk about an operating system that can’t get out of its own way! I just ordered Windows XP Pro and it is going on that notebook as soon as it gets here.
I got a new desktop from Dell in June with XP and we just got our daughter a new notebook with XP loaded from Dell. If you go to the Dell website there is a small link on the left that says “Still looking for XP?” We did not want Vista so that’s why we bought now. I think it will be around for awhile.
They delayed the end of lifecycle once already. Microsoft wants to force the move to Vista, but the computer companies will not go along, there is not enough demand for it.
Home Basic leaves out many of the nice interface enhancements of Windows Vista. They may have included that instead of Home Premium if you had less than 2GB of RAM in that notebook.
If the “out of it’s own way” relates to the prompt when changing configurations or installing new software, you can disable the User Access Control (UAC).
You are more secure with Windows Vista installed. Go for the Home Premium if you can.
Vista is just a large, cumbersome XP that you can’t run most of the freeware XP stuff on. MS just heard all the complaints about XP and believed it.
What it boils down to is some hackers found “holes” in XP. Problems MOST NORMAL USERS would NEVER experience, but MS panicked gave the malicious code writers jobs finding exploits and so they did.
MS panicked over NOTHING and put out a bloated OS that stops you from running anything or offers the choice to run anything. Stupid.
Other than some side goodies, most of them already available for XP as free ware (meaning MS didn’t make money on them). So MS wrote a large, resource wasting OS and used their power to get the manufacturers to fall in to line and ONLY offer Vista to business users.
Almost all the manufacturers will allow “business users” to buy the computers with XP. And many are. One of the biggest subjects of tech forums on the net is how to convert systems to XP. Labtops are sometimes a bit harder, because of device drivers, but it is do-able.
The same system running XP vs Vista is up to twice as fast, with lower memory and processor requirements.
So if you can don’t buy Vista. XP is officially allowed to be sold until June by the computer manufacturers to “business” users.
Many are now including XP install disks with their preloaded Vista systems. What does that tell you?
That's why I got a Dell. It was the only way I could avoid being an early adopter a beta tester for vista.
China has announced that priated copies will be available through 2012...
*snicker*
Pirated even....
Microsoft just had a banner quarter with tremendous sales of Windows Vista. That’s about 9 months after it’s release. About the time it takes for companies that are going through a recycle/upgrade of their computer systems.
Windows Vista is the way to go. And as noted on this thread, there were many who resisited leaving Windows 98. There will always be laggards.
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