Microsoft Gives XP Another Four Months to Live

Dec 22, 2008, 22:31 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Austin Modine)

"Windows XP was originally scheduled for OEM extinction on January 31, 2009. That deadline was given once, twice, three times the delay to mid-2010, provided the Windows XP licenses were for netbooks and low-cost PCs that can't handle Windows Vista - or perhaps more importantly, can and do support Linux."

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