Windows Xp is really going to be the operating system that never dies. It was going out of support many times last year but Microsoft kept extending it’s life, after all it is still the most used operating around. And a lot of netbooks still ship with Windows XP preinstalled. Microsoft has did this again, Microsoft has extended the life of Windows XP for 10 more years.
According to Microsoft : Going forward, businesses can continue to purchase new PCs and utilize end user downgrade rights to Windows XP or Windows Vista until they are ready to use Windows 7. Enabling such rights throughout the Windows 7 lifecycle will make it easier for customers as they plan deployments to Windows 7.
Well that means Windows XP would be alive as long as Windows 7 is alive and that is 2020. So now IT departments or users or anyone else can buy a copy of shiny new Windows 7 and downgrade it to Windows XP, something which was first released on October 25, 2001.
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