XP and Vista - moving on together
April 20th, 2007The change from XP to Vista wasn’t as sudden as most would have expected. Despite the craze that has surrounded Microsoft’s newest product, not everybody was ready to drop their former operating system (namely Windows XP, because I doubt many Mac or Linux users made the change) and switch to Vista.
Recently, Windows XP not only has signaled that it won’t be dead any time soon, but it’s actually striving for a comeback. Recently, Dell has announced that it’s putting XP back on track for small business customers, as a result of many voices asking them to do so. However, as Tom West (the Small Business Director at Dell) adds, Dell does not have plans to launch Windows XP for home users as the preference and demand is for the “latest and greatest” technology which includes Windows Vista., so not everybody will be affected by this slight change of plan.
However, as many voices say, Windows XP will not fade from the large masses any time soon, as people started to talk. It is true that Microsoft will halt all shippments of XP from January 1st 2008, but that doesn’t mean the supplies will run out instantly. It is estimated that you will be able to find Windows XP for quite some time.
And to prove XP is not yet dead, campaigns are on the way in the less developed parts of the world. After “The $100 laptop” projects hit third world countries, providing young children with Linux-equipped laptops, Microsoft plans a similar project with a small program pack including a Windows XP Starter, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Windows Live Mail and others.
In the meantime, what’s new with Vista? Apart from the scheduled launch for a Vista Service Pack, which is scheduled in October or November of this year, Vista is supposed to have sold a lot of genuine copies in China. What’s a lot, you ask? 244 copies. Only 244 copies were sold, and the pirates took it from there. This is a major blow to Vista, despite its huge budget on promotion.
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I think this sort of thing will always be a gradual change-over. Only the fanatics will rush out and change operating systems.
Also, Microsoft is contending with a whole lot of negative press. The blogosphere just seemed ready to pounce on this thing — just take a look at Shelly Palmer’s “Cracked Windows,” for example.
It will definitely become the dominant OS, before too long — but I expect XP to stick around, and Mac/Linux to get a boost from Vista’s apparent problems.
Howard