Windows XP is the operating system that will not die and for good reason - Vista. Microsoft originally stated that they would stop shipping XP on January 30, 2008, one year after Vista was introduced. Well, Vista was less than well received. So, Microsoft extended the deadline for shipping XP until January 31, 2009. With this impending deadline consumers were in an uproar. It turns out that a full 30% of Vista consumers actually downgrade their computers to XP. The deadline has been extended again, this time until May 30, 2009.
The result is that it is now possible to buy new XP machines until Windows 7 is released. Let's just hope that Windows 7 is a better OS launch than Vista was!
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