Richard Creighton wrote:
Actually, M$ have recently announced that they are extending support for XP, for some unknown reason people are not buying as many Vista copies as M$ expected :-)
Few hundreds reasons per product. Count is mostly 2 (Vista & MS Office) which comes out as one good computer upgrade (no monitor and accessories).
Actually, from what I've seen in articles around, Vista wants state-of-the-art equipment to run and much of the legacy equipment just doesn't seem to want to run and a lot of people are balking at having to buy new computers just to buy a new OS and it's new and improved bugs. One nice thing about Linux....so far... is that it historically allows people to almost run on their old 'junk' machines and still do useful work. I hope this doesn't change any time soon even as it supports the newer equipment, I hope the old boxes aren't forgotten.
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