LXer: Microsoft to Windows XP diehards: Just 3 more years' support

LXer · 07-12-2011, 01:11 PM

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'Eventually, there comes a time to give us more money'Microsoft continued its campaign yesterday to convince stuck-in-the-mud Windows XP customers to upgrade to Windows 7, the company's current operating system.…

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frieza · 07-12-2011, 04:53 PM

hmm, i wonder if that means the activation servers for windows xp will also be terminated
hopefully it doesn't mean existing copies of windows xp will cease to exist or new installs of XP can't happen for hardware that doesn't support windows 7

Amdx2_x64 · 07-12-2011, 05:09 PM

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Microsoft's Steve Ballmer separately announced yesterday had now reached 400 million licence sales worldwide since its retail release in October 2009

I wonder how many people it would be with those that just bought it rather then those who buy a computer with Win7 preinstalled.