[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Arne Vajhøj]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <L%sIl.25382$Ws1.8368 at nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>, Michael Austin <maustin at firstdbasource.com> writes:
>> JF Mezei wrote:
>>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>
>>>> Most likely not the end. They have little debt and are still
>>>> making a profit. Not exactly bankruptcy material.
>>> I think Microsoft's biggest challenge is adapting to a slower
>>> replacement cycle for PCs and a population that is no longer eager to
>>> line up a full day to be the first to get their hands on an upgrade.
>>>
>>> I think that corporations hanging on to XP is a big sign of that.
>>>
>> MS is trying to fix that... I was loafing around at <bigboxstore> last 
>> evening and in a conversation with one of the PC sales folks, they said 
>> a month or so ago, MS came in and basically grabbed all of their XP 
>> stock and replaced it with Vista.  I suppose they got tired of everyone 
>> "hanging on" to XP.
> 
> So M$ is forcing people to downgrade.

Mainstream support on Windows XP ended April 14th. The only
updates that will still come for XP is security updates.

Not that surprising that MS does not want to sell a product where
they are stopping normal support.

Arne