Microsoft extended support for Windows XP Home and Windows XP Media Center by five years this week in part because it recognized that consumers rarely update their PCs to a new operating system, a company executive said Friday. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced it would support Windows XP Home and Media Center until April 2014 by adding a five-year "Extended Support" period. The announcement matches a policy already in place for the business-oriented Windows XP Professional. "Consumers are keeping their computers for longer periods of time," says Ines Vargas, Microsoft's director of support policy. "The average family is buying a new operating system with a new computer, their second or third, then passing the older machine to another in the family." That jibes with research which shows families retain older operating systems on older PCs, and with analysts' insights into the same behavior at the corporate level.
Why Microsoft's Keeping XP Home Alive Until 2014..?
From what I've read so far Vista won't be easily installed on a lot of current machines. In 5 years most of us will move on to a new machine I suspect.
Reply:Because Microsoft products are rubbish and expensive. The new Vista doesn't look much different to XP apart from the black toolbars.
Some people are still using 98!
Reply:By 2014 Microsoft should have at least some of the bugs worked out of Vista so people that need a PC for actual work and not just a pretty desktop will then be able to switch.
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