Windows XP to live until 2010
Today Microsoft announces that they will extend the amount of time manufacturers can ship low cost PCs with Windows XP until 2010.
Microsoft was specific about its plans that after Windows XP for netbooks: Windows 7, probably some cut down version, will be the operating system for netbooks. Since this is a great market opportunity for Microsoft, they will simply go after it and release Windows 7 for netbooks. This might be some base version of the “normal” Windows 7, or a special OEM version, we still are not aware of these details.
Intel has already reached an agreement with Microsoft to keep Windows XP alive until 2010 and beyond, as Vista allegedly is not match made in heaven for Netbooks. Vista is too performance greedy, and since Atom is great on low power but has many normal features cut down, Vista doesn’t like it particularly well.
We are sure Windows 7 will like Atom better.
June 29, 2009 at 6:49 AM
That's cool. There's still yet lots of life left in Windows XP I think. I still prefer XP over Vista personally. Though what early glimpses and info I've seen on Windows 7, it looks like eventually I'll upgrade to it in the future.