Microsoft Extends Windows XP Cutoff Date

InformationWeek ^ | 12/22/2008 | Paul McDougall

[A_Tradition_Continues]

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is extending the deadline for making its supposedly retired Windows XP operating system available to custom PC builders.

Under the plan, system builders will be allowed to take delivery of XP licenses and media through May 30. Previously, Microsoft had announced a Jan. 31 XP cutoff date for system builders, which are typically smaller, build-to-order vendors. The news was first reported Friday by InformationWeek.com sister site ChannelWeb.

[NormsRevenge]

I like W2000. Ugh on Vista. I still have a 95 machine I never used, won’t support wireless unfortunately or I’d network it in..

To be fair to XP, I may have more browser issues than XP and a wireless router that just don’t mesh well occasionally and I have been to cheap to replace it.. ;-)

[Cyber Liberty]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjo629JpTyE

[Uri’el-2012]

Win2000, xp and vista are just newer shades of lipstick on NT

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

I set up my daughters wireless network the other day and she has Vista.

What a mess!

[Mrs_Stokke]

I've still got several machines running Windows 2000.

Same here. My husband and son both run XP, and complain constantly about the invasive updates and other "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" MS problems.

I was one of ten people in the country who got stuck with Windows ME, and the Vista story sounds very similar. Replace a working OS with a system that is so buggy and unstable, everyone will rally to the next OS, no questions asked. Windows ME was supposed to replace Win2000, but after five years, there was no support for ME at all. Then everyone went to XP (except for rebels like me, who went backwards to Win2000).

[bamahead]

I’m still using XP (SP2).

Stay there if you can - I went to SP3 on one of my PC's and had some problems. Eventually I had to rebuild that machine due to something unrelated.

I reapplied SP3 after the rebuild and it hasn't caused anything detrimental yet. I think the previous install with SP2 plus a gazillion hotfixes on top didn't take well to SP3.

I'm using my Fedora box more and more these days...so I'll probably scrap XP altogether fairly soon.

[southlake_hoosier]

Linux anyone? Ubuntu and Open Office. Works.

[Red_Devil 232]

LOL "... haven’t you heard that you can’t polish a turd?

Myth Busters proved it can be done. Myth Busters - Poop Polishing

[Knitebane]

Oh, sorry, he did pay $50,000 for it, didn’t he? It’s not his fault that his partner was a moron...

It wasn't his partner. That wouldn't be a big surprise. Besides, anyone dumb enough to partner with Bill Gates III deserves what he gets. Rather, Billy defrauded a complete stranger of billions.

Billy Gates III sold an OS to IBM. It was just an oversight that he didn't actually have an OS to sell them. But when your mommy is on the board of directors of The United Way and sits right next to one John Opel, the chairman of IBM, well, little things like fraud can be overlooked.

So little Billy, borrowing money from dear old dad, an "intellectual property" lawyer, bought a non-exclusive license to QDOS from Seattle Computing and hired someone to port it to the IBM PC. When it worked, Gates, in violation of the licensing agreement, "forgot" to tell Seattle Computing about the deal with IBM and bought the rest of QDOS.

Later, Seattle Computing sued Microsoft and won to the tune of $1,000,000.

[50sDad]

I have one XP machine and five 98SE's in my house, which still work for what they were bought for. Whenever I make a machine from parts, build an arcade machine to run MAME or pinball, I clone 98SE and it runs fine, without Bill Gates running around inside my machine to nag me.

Vista? Snort-giggle!

[ShadowAce]

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ditto. I’ll be using XP Pro SP3 until there is something better. I don’t care if MS supports it or not. I’ll still use it.

[Theo]

You could stop your ignorant tirade against Rick Warren at any time.

You can also stop lying about his pro-life stance.

Why such animosity? If you are concerned about Warren’s doctrine, surely you could be more godly in your communication about it.

[Frantzie]

What the heck? I posted my message once and it came up 3 times? I think I running Win 2000 on this machine and it is generally very good.

Bill Gates is a crook and so is his friend Buffett and so are their MSNBC cronies plus Obama, Soros etc.

[50sDad]

Surely the next topic on this thread will be 8000 entries on the Armenian Genocide.

[cdbull23]

If I want to feel good about myself, I’ll use a Mac. If I want to get work done, I’ll use a PC.

[sionnsar]

Kubuntu 8.04 here.