Dell Extends Lifeline Of Windows XP PCs

By Wolfgang Gruener, published on June 23, 2008 at 9:10 PM
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: , ,
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Dell has added eight more days to the availability of PCs with Windows XP. The company previously said that final orders for XP PCs would be accepted until June 18, but now extended the deadline until June 26. And this time, final means final. As long as you are not buying a Windows Vista PC with a downgrade option (which is available with licenses for Vista Business and Vista Ultimate), June 26 will be the last day you can buy a Windows XP PC from Dell. There will be no exceptions after that date, we were told.

The downgrade option will be limited to the desktops XPS 630 and 720 H2C as well as the notebook M1730. According to Microsoft’s life-cycle policy, Windows XP Home Edition, Professional, Tablet PC Edition, Professional x64 Edition and Media Center Edition will no longer be available to the direct OEM and retail channel after June 30, 2008. System builder licenses will be offered until January 31, 2009. Mainstream support for Windows XP will remain available until April 14, 2009.

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velocityg4 06/24/2008 3:11 AM
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Well they have to force Vista down our throats some how. I am surprised that on day one MS did not say sorry no more XP. By the way there will no longer be any XP updates and we will be secretly releasing a supervirus to disable all XP machines forcing an immediate Vista upgrade.

nukemaster 06/24/2008 5:41 AM
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XP has had a 8 year run, longer then any version of windows to date. Its only natural that they want to sell more vista. The more they sell, the more the lazy ass driver developers get there act together. Vista is not the problem, for the most part its the drivers(Many do not quite work right(creative lacks features and stability, Nvidia had several issues), but they had the new driver model long time before vista hit the selves.)

XP had just as many problems when it came out(maybe even more), but after 8 years its been almost perfected. Vista is moving along faster then XP did(most things are taken care of faster then similar issues on XP).

gm0n3y 06/24/2008 9:37 AM
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I agree with nukemaster. XP was horrible when it first came out, people seem to have such a short memory for these kind of things. I also remember people complaining to no end about what a resource hog XP was and how its requirements were ridiculous. Now today we hear the same thing about Vista. Give it another year and I'm sure it will be fine. Once XP updates stop I think the adoption rate of Vista will drastically increase.

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