Get Your Copy Of XP While You Still Can
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Ahh Microsoft, the company that likes to give consumers lots of choices. For example they gave consumers six different choices of the same steaming pi…..er…uh…I mean…Windows Vista. But if you should want to buy a new PC with XP you don’t have very long.
It is being reported that Microsoft will stop offering XP to manufacturers by the end of the year:
Looks like PC manufacturers are getting screwed by Microsoft. According to Slashdot, by the end of this year, manufacturers won’t be able to grab a copy of Windows XP OEM. Dell will be selling XP on select models, but only until the end of the year because Microsoft won’t allow any further sales. This is a terrible move by Microsoft on so many levels. First off, consumers want choice. If I don’t want Vista on my PC, I shouldn’t have to have it installed. Also, XP will run all your applications, files no problem, without a hitch.
It’s no wonder Apple isn’t rushing to get Leopard out the door. Microsoft just keeps shooting themselves in the foot.
[Sorry, We’re Fresh Out Of XP]
Tags: windows xp, microsoft xp, xp, xp pro, xp home, windows, microsoft, vista
2 Comments
marc klink
April 17th, 2007
at 7:02pm
They do shoot themselves in the foot, but they keep getting up and walking again…like Night of the Living Dead.
I’m guessing that there will be lots of systems staying with XP for the forseeable future. Also there will be people using their right to downgrade the system they buy with Vista to XP.
I also think that there will be people more than willing to get a known pirate copy of XP once they can no longer purchase one. I have talked to people who are otherwise not pirating software, but say they would not feel bad about doing it if MS takes away the ability to purchase.
Rick L
April 18th, 2007
at 8:23am
Ok, the problem is not Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot, the problem is with the general attitudes of the enduser/general public.
What I mean is that everyone and their mother clamors for a new OS, then complain when it won’t run their old stuff.(This goes for Mac as well).
You can have it both ways people. How can any company innovate when their very core base of users scream that Clunky’s mind scape (or any crappily written game/program/utility) is broken. To have anything new, you have to leave the old behind. One of the reasons that xp and now vista is so bloated is because MS has been forced to keep legacy code in place (which creates legacy security issues).
I’m no MS or Apple apologist, I’m simply a guy that has to work on this crap daily (network engineer). Unless more people embrace newer technologies and leave the old in the dust, the slower the going in true innovation from either one of our operating system overlords. And before the linux people chime in, linux is just as bad in that regard. While linux/unix as a whole is stable, it’s stagnant just like every other OS.
We have constant hardware innovation, what we lack is the OS. Thank you public, for your demands to keep some esoteric program running based on old code compatible with the latest and greatest and stiffling innovation and imagination at any level.
JMO