Microsoft will Stop selling Win XP June 30th!
On June 30th of this year Microsoft, and OEM companies (such as HP and Dell), will stop selling Windows XP. Is this really a smart move? I know of two companies, both my current and future employers, that have software that is not yet Vista capable. Now at this point is Microsoft’s fault or is the fault of the software vendor?
Well one might argue that its Microsoft’s fault for not making Vista backwards compatible with software and hardware. To that many critics are responding that its very hard for Microsoft to move forward and innovate when it has to keep coming back to support older software and hardware. I, for one, completely agree. How can Microsoft move forward and create new and interesting things when it has to keep code that supports older devices and software? Keep in mind this code that makes Vista compatible affects and limits what programmers can do to make Vista better, a perfect example is security. Because so many people wanted Vista to be compatible, instead of everyone upgrading to Vista, we are left with User Access Control. If Microsoft moved forward like it had originally intended too we would have much better account security controls than UAC.
Also the other side of this argument might be that its the software vendors fault for not patching or releasing a newer version that is Vista compatible. Vista has been talked about for many years prior to its release to the business market in November 2006 and the consumer release in Early 2007. Seems like something should have been done before now.
I, for one, welcome Vista. I have been a Vista user since its release early last year. I run it on my laptop, and when I build my next desktop that too shall run Windows Vista. There are many features of vista that I find myself missing and wishing I had when I go back to an XP environment. I find myself now very rarely using my desktop and picking up my laptop. I urge anyone out there who hasn’t tried Vista yet to go ahead and try it out.
On a side note, Vista has been so unwelcome and hated that it has been dubbed the Millennium Edition of the new age. For those of you not fortunate enough to have used Windows ME, trust me you didn’t miss anything. Windows ME was on my very first laptop that I got when I was 18. It was a p3 900MHZ processor with 120 MB of ram, its actually still kicking today as I use it for miscellaneous side projects. Anyway I saw the blue screen of death more times with ME than I ever have before. I have never seen Vista blue screen. As soon as XP was released I rushed out and grabbed a copy to throw over ME, that was the best move ever.
my friend bought a sony vaio laptop from pc world, the laptop came with vista home premium pre-installed but my friend wanted to install his retail xp as he, like me prefers to run xp, he got it home and installed xp only to find out that the networking, bluetooth and audio hardware was not supported by xp, sony said they do not have xp drivers for the hardware so my friend had to use the recovery partition to reinstall the factory default vista…xp is more stable than its ever been and this is just an example of the tactics used to push a new os on to people when they dont want it..pc world advised my friend that the latop would support xp, but then they would say that if they are getting a sale out of it……rant finished.. thanks for reading :-b