Microsoft Extends Sales of Windows XP To June 2008

Boston (dbTechno) - Microsoft has announced that they are extending sales of the Windows XP operating system beyond January to June 2008.

According to Microsoft the demand from customers was too great that they had to listen to the consumer and continue to offer Windows XP.

The company is hoping that this will allow more time for computer manufacturers as well as businesses t get it together and be able to switch over to Windows Vista in the near future. Just a few days ago Microsoft announced that companies can begin to offer Windows XP as an alternative to Windows Vista if the consumer chooses to do so in their computer system.

Mike Nash of Microsoft admitted that “Maybe we were a little ambitous to think that we would need to make Windows XP available for only a year after the release of Windows Vista.”

The past way in which Microsoft worked was to discontinue an old operating system four years after its launch. Windows Vista released 5 years after XP though due to immense delays and bugs.

Nash stated that “Making (XP) available through June was a little bit better.”