Microsoft partners to keep Windows XP in play
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Microsoft's OEM and retail partners will offer Windows XP for an additional five monthsuntil June 30, 2008the software maker has decided after receiving complaints that customers are not ready to cut off and switch to Vista.
OEMs have been telling Microsoft that a small set of customers need to run Windows XP for longer than the year limit initially set, Mike Nash, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows product management, told eWEEK.
The Redmond, Wash., software maker initially told those partners they could offer XP until Jan. 31, 2008a year after the general availability of Windows Vista. "In retrospect, the original policy may have been a bit too aggressive, and we have been hearing back from customers, largely through our OEM partners, that that was the case," Nash said.