legend999
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AS VISTA CONTINUES to flop, XP refuses to die, with Microsoft once again extending the old OS’s life to OEMs for another six months.
Computer makers will now purportedly be allowed to offer 'downgrade rights' – if that’s what the Vole insists on calling them – from Vista to XP until July 31, 2009, six months after the former 'final cut-off date' of January 31, 2009.
A Volish spokesperson confirmed the reports to ZDnet, noting the firm would allow six additional months 'of downgrade media for XP Professional for OEMs and system builders to provide to their customers who purchase Windows Vista Ultimate and Business editions'.
The Redmond giant wasn’t left much choice. The public image of Vista is now so bad that even Mighty-Soft itself admits it's not quite what it should have been.
Meanwhile, a Forrester Research survey shows that only 8.8 per cent of global businesses have made the switch to Vista, with the others hoping to simply skip it altogether in the hope that Windows 7 will be fast-tracked and released early in 2010.
In the meanwhile, fingers crossed and XPect to be saying Hasta La Vista very soon.
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