Windows XP to be discontinued in 2008
By Madhur Kapoor on Apr 17, 2007 in Microsoft, Windows
Come 2008 and you wont see Windows XP in the market. According to the windows life cycle policy web page, Microsoft will discontinue selling its Windows XP operating system by January 31 , 2008 despite its popularity to focus on marketing for its new Vista OS which has not received such a huge response since its launch .
The retails licenses will also be discontinued which means Professional edition , Home edition , X64 and Media Center edition will not be available from next year . PC makers such as Dell , HP , Toshiba etc will no longer be able to buy licenses for the software so they can install it on there machines .
This decision may be based on the fact that Vista was not received to well in the US and Europe . Accoriding to a poll by a US market research , 10% of those questioned were planning to upgrade to Vista.
i didnt feel an urge to go buy vista either. i feel like windows xp has all i need. if windows wanted to market vista they needed to come up with something totally new, not just a different layout and “better security system”. even if i had the option to upgrade to vista for free, i wouldn’t do it, mainly because alot of programs are incompatible with vista.
jake | Apr 18, 2007 | Reply
This move is really surprising. XP has a large share in OS and discontinuing XP will not make vista more popular.
Nirmal | Apr 18, 2007 | Reply
The decision was probably made to force development for applications that will vista compatible since that is the biggest problem vista has right now.
Brown Baron | Apr 18, 2007 | Reply
I’m done with XP. Vista doesn’t seem to be a good deal to me.
Shankar Ganesh | Apr 18, 2007 | Reply
microsoft is getting on my nerves. they should be able to force to buy their new operating system just because it failed. microsoft is acting like little children.
jake | Apr 18, 2007 | Reply
I am not sure about the credibility of the news since I didn’t find any links to justify this, but if it is true, then its really a bad move. I really hope there is Google OS and we all could get a benefit of real competitor to Microsoft OS business.
Somu | Apr 19, 2007 | Reply
Huhu..quite surprising when microsoft said that. Looks like they want customers to pay 100% attention to their new OS..
So far Vista does not look good to me…may be 2 or 3 years later, its worth to move to Vista OS…
cYber$|x | Apr 19, 2007 | Reply
@Somu: You can check this source, pretty reliable
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx
Frankly, I am not surprised, but this time, microsoft’s tactics may lead them down the drain
Vijay | Apr 19, 2007 | Reply
Windows Vista has many advantages to it. Mainly security and anti-piracy. But the main disadvantages is that most xp application do not work. Only 121 applications have been approved with microsoft to be capable of the new system. Unfortunately, I have just recently bought a fairly fast laptop and all it came shipped with was Windows Vista Home Premium.
I would have to say that this system is by far the worst system I have ever used. Not only is it incapable of nearly everything, it get more BSOD’s than most of their distribution like 98, 98se, 2000, and XP.
This version of Windows is most likely going to cause economic disasters due to most of the corporate world is still with the OEM version of Xp Professional in which Microsoft will stop support for in early 2008 and XP will be done in 2009 no longer having support. I do not know about any of you wanting to stay with this company, but I have had better luck with Linux. Currently I use SuSe 10.1 by Novell and it works flawlessly. So far, the system hasn’t crashed and I have been using it for almost a year alongside with Windows XP Home Edition which will crash every now and then.
Basically Xp to me is only good for the wireless features that it has. Linux is currently incapable of most wireless cards and many vendors do not support it. But, if you want to use wireless with Linux and this will work on most distributions, use “ndiswrapper” package to configure it. It has worked with few flaws. Depending on your wireless model, it will either work perfectly, good, some problems, or will crash your system (But not in a bad way). If it crashes your system, all you will need to do is a cold boot (Just holding the power button or flip the switch on the main power in the back of the computer until it turns off), then restart the system. The crash will generally not do anything and “ndiswrapper” will not load on boot; fortunately.
I dont know if any of you would like to upgrade to such a piece-of-junk system or if your computer is capable of it, but Linux is for me.
One more thing, all of those computers that are made for Windows ME and below will not run Windows Vista withought completely changing the motherboard and most to all of the inner components of your pc.
Here’s some stats about memory usage of Vista.
RAM Usage: 512mb (minimum)
HD Space: 2-4gb
Video: Any card capable of supporting Windows Aero. which generally are ones from the last 3-5 years.
All I have to say is it is up to you. I just really dislike the system.
Ra'Nct | May 8, 2007 | Reply
I think the main reason that vista isn’t so popular is because they didn’t build it off of DOS like they have with past OS’s and so it doesn’t have the same filing system and is incompatable with alot of programs cause they can’t find the files that they require even if they’re there.
Adragon202 | Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
and it requires and internet connection so it can check in every 30 days or it stops working
Adragon202 | Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
I think Vista is a good product, but the price is too high
Desiani | Dec 26, 2007 | Reply