Windows XP gets Another Stay of Execution

Microsoft recently announced to its system-building partners that they would extend the pull date on Windows XP past the originally announced January 31, 2009. These system builders are going to be allowed orders of XP all the way up until January 31, and they can ship them until May 30. “This is a good solution to support the customers that are standardized still on XP,” stated Michael Schwab, the co-president of D&H Distributing. “In this case, people contemplated buying in larger quantities [of XP licenses] and holding on to them. But that would have caused a bubble [from] people buying five months of supply in January.” This appears to be another sign of the market’s resistance to getting Windows Vista. Despite all the clever ads, it still seems that people prefer Windows XP to the pretty new OS. What about you? Are you still set in your XP ways or have you moved on to Vista? Let us know in the comments. read more (link)