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Thread ID: 82012 2007-08-13 18:41:00 "XP Might Stick Around A Little Longer"....M$ SurferJoe46 (51) PC World Chat
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580489 2007-08-13 18:41:00 Vista is doing OK, but XP is still running pretty strong .

So strong . . . that now M$ has run out of activation keys and needs to offer a new build of XP (Pro-SP2c) to allow some more sales .

. techworld . com/opsys/news/index . cfm?newsid=9779" target="_blank">www . techworld . com
SurferJoe46 (51)
580490 2007-08-13 20:10:00 very interesting

Regards

Digby
Digby (677)
580491 2007-08-14 02:34:00 I can't wait till winmacguy turns this into a pro-mac spiel somehow. beeswax34 (63)
580492 2007-08-14 02:41:00 People who fancy Macs have no problem with fantasy, reality is the tricky bit. R2x1 (4628)
580493 2007-08-14 02:48:00 Vista is doing OK, but XP is still running pretty strong .

So strong . . . that now M$ has run out of activation keys and needs to offer a new build of XP (Pro-SP2c) to allow some more sales .

. techworld . com/opsys/news/index . cfm?newsid=9779" target="_blank">www . techworld . com

I spotted that article yesterday and was going to post it but managed to loose the link . I guess Microsoft has discovered when you give users 5 years to get used to an OS and don't give them enough reasons to "upgrade" to the newer version .
winmacguy (3367)
580494 2007-08-14 02:49:00 I can't wait till winmacguy turns this into a pro-mac spiel somehow.

Darn! Maybe I shouldn't have given him this free banana.....:lol:
SurferJoe46 (51)
580495 2007-08-14 02:55:00 lol that doesnt suprise me, i at least though xp mightve had a nice price drop, but of course not, thats a silly suggestion!....damn them Codex (3761)
580496 2007-08-14 03:05:00 I guess they still need to get a return on the $9 billion and 5 years they took to "create" Vista. winmacguy (3367)
580497 2007-08-14 03:10:00 According to this article our own Kiwibank won't be using Vista in the near future due to hardware constraints
Hardware constraints are preventing Kiwibank from upgrading to the Windows Vista operating system, according to the bank’s enterprise architecture manager, Bohdan Szymanik.

Speaking at Microsoft’s Tech Ed, Szymanik said that most of Kiwibank’s desktop PCs, which had been purchased rather than leased, were still running Windows 2000. While an upgrade of the oldest PCs would soon allow Kiwibank to standardise on Windows XP, the bank was not yet ready for Vista.
computerworld.co.nz
winmacguy (3367)
580498 2007-08-14 03:19:00 I guess they still need to get a return on the $9 billion and 5 years they took to "create" Vista.
LOL so true

even people that work for M$ say vista isnt worth it till sp1 at the least
Codex (3761)
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