Yeh, I read that it was $3 XP as well which is strange cause I also read that MS is going to stop supporting XP soon.
My opinion is that this program is just a product dump--they want to truthfaully say that they have no more copies of XP to sell to the US, so we must buy Vista instead. It's just another ploy to push everyone onto the latest, and continue the revenue stream.
Nothing more.
Soon is 2009, which considering that XP has been around since 2002 is a pretty long time for them.
> ... I also read that MS is going to stop supporting XP soon.
What you read was that MS is going to stop selling
the OEM versions of XP by the end of 2007. This move is
intended to force PC makers onto Vista. It also affects
PC home-builders.
The support life of XP will be many years, although MS
could sabotage that in any number of ways.
I haven’t seen anything on retail XP availability
(upgrades and full-install versions).