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Comments: 1 +-   One Year Later, 'Dead XP' Still Going Strong-> on Tuesday June 30, @12:28PM snydeq

Submitted by snydeq on Tuesday June 30, @12:28PM
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snydeq writes "Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows XP a year ago today, no longer selling new copies in most venues. Yet according to a report from InfoWorld, various downgrade paths to XP are keeping the operating system very much alive, particularly among businesses. In fact, despite Microsoft trumping Vista as the most successful version of Windows ever sold, more than half of business PCs have subsequently downgraded Vista-based machines to XP, according to data provided by community-based performance-monitoring network of PCs. Microsoft recently planned to further limit the ability to downgrade to XP now that Windows 7 is in the pipeline, but backlash against the licensing scheme prompted the company to change course, extending downgrade rights on new PCs from April 2010 to April 2011."
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  • All to often, I still have clients that hate Vista with a passion and still want XP because Vista simply is not user-friendly. Not only that, some software will not install on Vista and even if it does, normally there are endless crashes. With the advent of windows 7, the migration is going to painfully slow with the way Microsoft are deploying it and I am telling clients to wait a year from now before it is even worth considering when they release service pack 1. XP is still strong and I expect it to rema
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