I remember the same type of posts when they stopped selling 98.
This makes me wonder...why are people so resistant to change?

By the time Windows 7 arrives...XP would be where Windows 98 is today. And Vista would be where XP is today. And Windows 7 will be where Vista is today

From the msnews.microsoft.com ( microsoft.public.fr.windowsxp )

> Bonsoir *TLM*
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> http://micro.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-microsoft-supportera-xp-jusqu-en-2014-2209.html
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> Dans ce cas, on a le temps de voir venir !
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> Cordialement
> GREENHORN
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Rassurez vous il n'arrêtera pas de fonctionner en 2014.
Didier MVP

==> don't be afraid, it won't be stopped in 2014

With Vista all I needed was a good AV,it must have come with the 'right' software already.


Tube type amps sound better than solid state,LP's have better sound dynamics than a CD.Beta was superior to VHS.They got replaced.(yes,I'm that old)
Something will replace XP.We're expected to "forget" the way things were.
As for me, I'd just like the future to be easier,faster,safer and cheaper.What OS I go there with isn't that important.

Ok, what's a beta player?

Where Vista belongs. lol

Yeah...about ME...I got this from Microsoft's website:



Microsoft's page on Windows XP's future.

Good grief! How cheap would that be? $49.95? I only paid $299+tax for this new HP w/o monitor with an AMD64,120Gb HDD and DVD with Lightscribe.Oh yeah,and Vista Home Basic.
Buy the software,get the PC free!

I would like to point out that I did a quite search of Microsoft pages and could not find anything confirming the artical that was published in the magazine identifed in reply #15.

But then it was a subscriber issue for August and it's only July. I wonder if anyone really knows what is going on at Microsoft.   

WWW Link

Dell has quietly continued to offer XPP even after their announced June 18th deadline. Just saw a promo today & you can get both flavors of Vista Business with XPP installed for dual boot. It's also still in the pipeline to independent resellers, & the tech support company that services our business network expects it to be available for some time to take care of the needs of businesses with multiple XP workstations & XP-only mission-critical business apps (which often take many months to years to become "next-OS ready" - apparently especially so with Vista).

That's probably because Dell has a stockpile of XP OEM's... and then probably only in the US. Dell Australia is now only advertising/selling Vista machines, and a customer service representative at Microsoft Australia told me that, as of June 18, XP will no longer be made available to PC manufacturers and/or suppliers, period.

Thing is, though, all the earlier incarnations of Windows were eventually withdrawn from sale when a newer version was released (even though support for them continued), so the withdrawal of XP is no different and should have been expected sometime soon after the release of Vista.... moreso after SP1 gave it better stability/reliability, etc.

OK, it's a transition period some aren't liking, but it's inevitable and they need to move on. Everything gets superseded eventually - like you can't go into Ford and order a T Model anymore - so it's either get with the times or get left behind...

I mean, it's not like ya see a lot of T Models on the freeway keeping up with modern day cars, now do ya.

I've been running Vista Ultimate since the first public beta and have had very few problems - in fact, considerably fewer problems than when I upgraded from 98SE to XP - so I'm not complaining that Vista is now MS' new flagship OS. I still run XP in a dual boot configuration, and I will continue to do so because I happen to like XP as well, but for the most part I'm booted into Vista these days cos I find it faster than XP in most instances.