by Stevie Smith - Jun 30 2008
Bring out yer dead. Mark your calendars of doom in ominous blood-red scrawl, for today is the day that American software beast Microsoft Corp. chopped the retail head off its stalwart XP operating system and held aloft (the still unpopular) Windows Vista as its now unavoidable successor. Flatly ignoring the substantial pleas of its customer base, Redmond-based Microsoft has upheld its decision to stop selling the Windows XP operating system (OS) on June 30, which now means that computer vendors will not be able to directly offer anything other than Vista on their systems when it comes to supplying a Windows OS. However, those prospective computer buyers absolutely unwilling to embrace Vista -- and not keen on the thoroughly respectable delights of a Linux-based solution -- do still have a few ‘last gasp’ options open to them when it comes to legally taking receipt of Microsoft’s seven-year-old operating system.
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