[SharmanNet]

Microsoft system builder partners who've been feeling queasy about the impending Jan. 31, 2009, deadline for selling PCs with Windows XP pre-installed can now breathe a bit easier, as Microsoft is giving them a way to obtain XP licenses through distribution after the deadline.

In an e-mail to ChannelWeb, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the existence of a flexible inventory program that will allow distributors to place their final orders for Windows XP OEM licenses by Jan. 31, 2009, and take delivery against those orders through May 30.

Previously, distributors had planned to purchase as many XP licenses as they could afford before Jan. 31, 2009, and sell them after the deadline. But once that inventory was gone, they'd have no choice but to turn away XP-seeking customers.

Distributors have until Dec. 31 to submit their XP license demand forecasts to Microsoft, and system builders are reportedly being asked to provide their own forecasts to distributors.

News source: CRN

[erazer007]

XP never dies does it.Not even when Microsoft wants it dead.

[JohnnyV1500]

kill it for god's sake!!!! its over and done! move on people!

[~{/^OoMoO^\}~]

Windows XP is immortal

[InlineSkate]

XP is old news and Microsoft is further putting themselves in a ditch

[Eye Pie Rate]

Windows XP is immortal in Asian countries and other poor countries.
The East should be renamed to XPEAST.

[henrydtv]

XP OWNS

[pm_41]

XP is good for those who can't afford one of the new super-powered computers of today. Even I would use XP if I had to get a budget system (Vista Home Basic is crap).

[Eye Pie Rate]

IMO
Home Basic is still faster than XP.

[uch_haiden]

It just wont die.

Either Microsoft really did bad in marketing or there are better products out there.

[Frylock86]

Will these people let it go already? Sheesh....

[TheGreenMan]

erazer007, on Dec 22 2008, 02:03 PM, said:

XP never dies does it. Not even when Microsoft wants it dead.

This post deserves an award.

[AMIRZ]

Agreed

I already have Vista but Xp rules!

Thx MS and long live Xp! IMO it's still the best OS ever

[Syzygy]

They're going to keep extending till 7 comes out.

[AMIRZ]

Syzygy, on Dec 24 2008, 05:16 AM, said:

They're going to keep extending till 7 comes out.

I'll be more grateful...love Seven so