Windows XP Not Dead Yet
Despite Microsoft placing a June 30 deadline on Windows XP, with all sales of the OS being cut off following that date, two of the world’s largest PC manufacturers are exploiting loopholes in Microsoft licensing terms as a means of supplying XP beyond its official end date.
Both HP and Dell plan to offer machines running on Windows XP way after June, taking advantage of the “downgrade rights” offered as part of the Windows Vista license agreement.
HP says that in the business sector it will continue to sell desktops, notebooks, and workstations “pre-downgraded” to XP, until July 30, 2009, over a year after Microsoft’s planned discontinuation. Dell will stop taking orders for XP machines as part of a default package on June 18, but will thereafter offer the same “pre-downgraded” option on its website.
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