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Windows XP forever? The OS that just won't die
By Carmi Levy | Published August 6, 2009, 2:07 PM
Microsoft has a problem on its hands. Or more precisely one problem with three seemingly contradictory components:
Windows XP is too good for its own good.
We're closing in on eight years since XP first hit the market and began the long process of making us finally forget we ever used Windows 95, 98, and Windows Me. By anyone's standards, it's been one of Microsoft's most visibly successful products. It still runs on some 60% of all PCs years after it was supposed to have been retired as a front-line offering. It's sold around 800 million copies since its initial release. And if piracy is the sincerest form of flattery, hundreds of millions more illegal copies are in use across the globe. In an age where icons are in desperately short supply, this is as iconic a product as it gets.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows-XP...-die/1249582039
By Carmi Levy | Published August 6, 2009, 2:07 PM
Microsoft has a problem on its hands. Or more precisely one problem with three seemingly contradictory components:
Windows XP is too good for its own good.
- It needs to die for the company's sake.
- It won't die because nothing else -- not even Windows 7 -- currently approaches it.
We're closing in on eight years since XP first hit the market and began the long process of making us finally forget we ever used Windows 95, 98, and Windows Me. By anyone's standards, it's been one of Microsoft's most visibly successful products. It still runs on some 60% of all PCs years after it was supposed to have been retired as a front-line offering. It's sold around 800 million copies since its initial release. And if piracy is the sincerest form of flattery, hundreds of millions more illegal copies are in use across the globe. In an age where icons are in desperately short supply, this is as iconic a product as it gets.
More:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows-XP...-die/1249582039