Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday
June 30, 2008
In this photo provided by Microsoft, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, right, speaks to employees as CEO Steve Ballmer looks on, during a farewell event celebrating Gates years at Microsoft, on his last day as a full-time employee, at company headquarters in Redmond, Washington, June 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Microsoft, Robert Sorbo)
(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.
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It's a good time for people to give Linux a try then...
http://www.thereg..._broken/
People have been taking pics of Vista boxes with thier phones and using the serial numbers, hahahaha.
We've all become too comfortable with the fact that a computer is a box attached to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse and you sit down at it and get on the internet or do whatever. Get outside the box. The pursuit of profit has trumped the pursuit of real progress, imo.
I could do pretty much all the same crap I do now on a beat old 180mhz w95 system in the back of the lab, but faster.