Windows XP continues to live on life support from Microsoft

Windows XP continues to live on life support from Microsoft

Customers are still preferring to buy new computers with Windows XP.

Microsoft has been trying to phase out this vintage operating system to get the market to adopt Windows Vista.

However, they have failed to do so even after two years of Vista availability.

The US based software giant has been forced to extend the availability of Windows XP once again.

January remains the the cut-off date for PC vendors to purchase licenses of Windows XP.

But they can now get hold of these licenses till May 30, 2009.

This means that customers would now be able to buy new computers with Windows XP till June next year.

It remains to be seen on how soon Microsoft can come out with their Windows 7 operating system which would replace Vista as their primary desktop OS.

The company is fixing a lot of things in Windows 7 which has made Vista unpopular in the market.

One of the primary things for Microsoft is to ensure that Windows 7 can run on netbooks which are becoming hugely popular in the market.

At this point of time, Microsoft has to make available XP as the OS for these low power laptops to avoid losing the market to Linux operating system.