[1rudeboy]

Ok, and MS refusing to support XP affects this news how, exactly? MS will ship/sell XP to OEMs, but pretend it doesn’t exist?

[Richard Kimball]

If you get Windows installed OEM, as opposed to buying it from MS, you're pretty screwed anyway. They won't talk to you at all, unless you buy a ticket.

I have no idea what they'll do with security updates, though.

They're getting into serious IBM mode. IBM continued to act like they were a monopoly even after the PC market became wide open. MS is acting like there aren't other OS operating choices. They'll pay for it, eventually, and apparently are already with Vista.

[VeniVidiVici]

MS doesn’t support OEM Windows anyhow. The OEMs do.

[raybbr]

People are tired of buying a machine from Dell only to have Dell tell them they should buy more hardware to run the OS on the machine they just bought. It’s the market.