From: "John Beamish" 

And why would they?  At some point MS will stop selling and stop supporting
XP.  New equipment coming in will be Vista OS and then companies can choose
one of three routes:  to buy Vista licences for existing hardware; operate
in a mixed mode environment; migrate to another OS.

MS isn't stupid, as new applications software (Office, SQL Server, etc.,
etc., etc.) comes out, it will be increasingly tied to functionality only
available in Vista.  As the Fram oil filter ads used to say:  you can pay
me now or you can pay me later.

It was the same thing with the switch from leaded to unleaded gas.  For
quite some time, you could still buy leaded.  But, after a while, new
vehicles only used unleaded and you could no longer (easily) find leaded
pumps.  After a while, new computers will only come with Vista.




On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:39:57 -0400, mike  wrote:

> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199201492
> ===
> In the latest sign that Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system may
> be destined for less than overwhelming commercial success, a new
> InformationWeek survey has found that nearly one third of businesses do
> not plan on upgrading their computers to the much-hyped software.

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