Xp continues to serve until 2010

xp continues to serve until 2010:

Bill · and Gates and his Microsoft empire are once again forced to make concessions, this time in the pressure of global PC giants And the Linux camp's containment, made a commitment to continue to sell WindowsXP, which means that Microsoft's new operating system Vista is still not accepted by the world. Xp continues to serve until 2010 Microsoft recently said at Computex 2008 in Taipei that it will extend the sales period of Windows XP to 2010 again, so that PC manufacturers can pre-install the operating system on low-cost computers. Rob Young, senior director of Microsoft OEM Group, said that the Windows XP extension decision is mainly for "NetTop" (NetTop), which is a low-end computer with low system configuration. Recently, Intel, ASUS and other vendors are promoting this. Kind of product. They believe that such products will satisfy people's demand for a second computer and access to Internet services. ASUS just launched the "Eee Box" & rdquo; is such a product. Before announcing the news, Microsoft plans to stop selling most of the Windows XP licenses after June 30 this year, forcing PC makers to switch to Vista. Global PC giants put pressure on Microsoft For Microsoft's decision, PC giants such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo have shown their attitudes and announced that they will continue to sell PCs pre-installed with Windows XP in the next few years. Lenovo said it will continue to offer Windows XP to commercial customers until January 31, 2009. The announcement stated: "We will provide Windows XP system recovery CDs for a period of time, and users can downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP in this way. & rdquo; Invariably, Dell also plans to continue selling PCs pre-installed with Windows XP until 2010. According to Microsoft's product roadmap, Vista's follow-up product, Windows 7, will be released in 2010. Dell's move is to hope to directly "skip" Microsoft's Vista. Dell plans to continue to use Windows XP Professional as an operating system pre-install option for Op-tiPlex desktops, Precision workstations and Lati-tude notebooks.

Similarly, after June 30 this year, HP also plans to continue to provide Windows XP for commercial customers, but has not announced how long it will last. The concerted actions of the three major PC giants once again show that consumers are not buying Microsoft Vista accounts. Although Vista has been launched for more than a year and has released important SP1 upgrade packages, there are still a large number of commercial customers who are unwilling to upgrade. To Vista. They are always complaining that Vista's system configuration requirements are too high, security features are bothersome, and compatibility with older systems and applications is not good. Linux uses low-cost PCs to block Microsoft Another reason for Microsoft to make such concessions is that its dead-to-head Linux has gradually invaded by low-cost PCs. From the $100 OLPC program to the Asustek PC, to the recent launch of similar models of Acer, MSI, Gigabyte and other PC manufacturers, they have prepared two versions of the operating system on all the low-cost PCs they offer. : Various self-developed Linux versions and Windows XP versions. Moreover, even more terrifying is that once the above-mentioned manufacturers bring such low-cost PCs to the market on a large scale, the number of Windows users lost to Microsoft is very large. What's more, these vendors prefer to sell pre-installed Linux systems, more pre-installed Windows systems. Take Asus for example, pre-installed Linux and Windows XP are the same price, but the former version of the hard drive is up to 20GB, while the latter is only 12GB, the difference of 8GB capacity is enough for consumers to make wise choices.