Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday

June 30th, 2008 Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday (AP)

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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  • Egnite - Jun 30, 2008
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    Nice marketing technique Bill ya tosser! Don't care about what the public want, just force em to buy the latest. No surprise tbh.

    It's a good time for people to give Linux a try then...
  • Icester - Jun 30, 2008
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    I am surprised that some retailer has not purchased a million licenses and then sell them to other retailers (much like stock market speculation). Seems like a no-brainer easy profit...
  • DGBEACH - Jun 30, 2008
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    Microsoft doesn't seem to realize just how easy it is to switch over to Linux.
  • Egnite - Jun 30, 2008
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    Lol check out
    http://www.thereg..._broken/

    People have been taking pics of Vista boxes with thier phones and using the serial numbers, hahahaha.

  • WolfAtTheDoor - Jun 30, 2008
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    There's nothing new to buy!!! WTF? Windows hasn't changed since Windows 95. I'll probably just keep my 4-year old XP box until Microsoft comes up with something inventive again. Voice interface, household appliance interface, tie into household heating/cooling systems, coffee makers.

    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.
  • Glis - Jun 30, 2008
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    I'm going to start sending MS invoices for the time I have to spend on the phone helping people install our drivers/software on their vista systems. Everything is 'Vista Certified', but forget about changing from one USB port to another without having to do a complete reinstall or picking one wrong option when Vista pesters you about security settings about 50 times... I've had the same problems with TV tuners, sercurity dongles... WTF!?

    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.

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