Microsoft literally killed windows XP yesterday.You may ask,what's that killing mean exactly to a software. Guys don worry... there are answers to all ur questions !!!
Wen XP was launched in October 2001,it was named so for the new eXPerience that a user may get from the software... but now the case is totally different, there's really another meaning by which XP can be called... itz eXPiry :(
Microsoft stopped selling the XP version to retailers and PC manufactures from yesterday (30th june 2008)...
So is this the end of XP totally ???
Nope... Micosoft has decided to release some low cost platforms that may use the HOME edition of XP for another 6 more months.
Why did those guys do this to XP ???
"We gave you a bigger, better version called Vista, more than 18 months ago.So start to love it - or lump it" this is what those ppl in Microsoft reply...
So wat do users reply for this???
"Thanks,but no thanks! We don't care for Vista... its blotted and sluggish... it irritates with hundred promptings and it often doesn work with most of our peripheral printers, scanners and CD/DVD driver and it takes too long to start or stop (unless we do costly hardware upgrade ), thaz drivin us crazy ", and this is wat exactly users say wen they wanna compare XP and Vista ...
So wat actually users want ???
As PC's become smaller, lighter, less power-hungry, what ppl want is a smaller, quicker PC software that lets em' to get on the web - which is just a dump place for their tools and files and Vista is not wat they exactly need...
Wat do others murmur about this???
"XP will die at the hands of misguided killer : Microsoft" said the Web magazine ITWorld.com a few days ago - and many in the industry agree...
Over 140 million copies of Vista have been sold claims Microsoft... but analysis Forrester found in April that only half the enterprise world has planned an upgrade to Vista... Whateva happening around the Intel Corp ( a key partner of Microsoft Corp ) has decided to stick with XP..
So wat can the rest of us do???
Microsoft has already announced that the next iteration after Vista will be Windows 7 - possibly in 2009.If we are to use XP on our boxes no one can really stop us and the resellers and assembler community will find some way to support us, with or without Microsoft's help.
So we can do all our computing, the XP way, till we see wat Windows7 offers, leap frogging over Vista in the process....
scribbles by,
johny :)
Wen XP was launched in October 2001,it was named so for the new eXPerience that a user may get from the software... but now the case is totally different, there's really another meaning by which XP can be called... itz eXPiry :(
Microsoft stopped selling the XP version to retailers and PC manufactures from yesterday (30th june 2008)...
So is this the end of XP totally ???
Nope... Micosoft has decided to release some low cost platforms that may use the HOME edition of XP for another 6 more months.
Why did those guys do this to XP ???
"We gave you a bigger, better version called Vista, more than 18 months ago.So start to love it - or lump it" this is what those ppl in Microsoft reply...
So wat do users reply for this???
"Thanks,but no thanks! We don't care for Vista... its blotted and sluggish... it irritates with hundred promptings and it often doesn work with most of our peripheral printers, scanners and CD/DVD driver and it takes too long to start or stop (unless we do costly hardware upgrade ), thaz drivin us crazy ", and this is wat exactly users say wen they wanna compare XP and Vista ...
So wat actually users want ???
As PC's become smaller, lighter, less power-hungry, what ppl want is a smaller, quicker PC software that lets em' to get on the web - which is just a dump place for their tools and files and Vista is not wat they exactly need...
Wat do others murmur about this???
"XP will die at the hands of misguided killer : Microsoft" said the Web magazine ITWorld.com a few days ago - and many in the industry agree...
Over 140 million copies of Vista have been sold claims Microsoft... but analysis Forrester found in April that only half the enterprise world has planned an upgrade to Vista... Whateva happening around the Intel Corp ( a key partner of Microsoft Corp ) has decided to stick with XP..
So wat can the rest of us do???
Microsoft has already announced that the next iteration after Vista will be Windows 7 - possibly in 2009.If we are to use XP on our boxes no one can really stop us and the resellers and assembler community will find some way to support us, with or without Microsoft's help.
So we can do all our computing, the XP way, till we see wat Windows7 offers, leap frogging over Vista in the process....
scribbles by,
johny :)