XP needs to live until 2009
Found on The Inquirer on Friday, 08 February 2008
Currently, the Vole plans to switch off the life support on XP in June even though the patient is not dead and is probably getting better.
Burton Group service director Richard Jones told Infoworld that in any operating system transition, you need to have the original and new products running side by side for a couple of years.This gives punters a chance to do a decent migration.
Jones added that the Vole had been a little too aggressive because it took too long to release Vista and this deprived it of cash. However, it was making users pay for its mistake, he said.
There was a chance that Microsoft would see customers abandoning Windows rather than being forced to move to Vista.
All I've heard and seen from Vista so far doesn't make me want to give it a try even. It's just a sinking ship and MS should drop it, trying to create something decent.