From: "John Beamish" 

Hardly surprising.  It's likely that MS gets *approximately* the same for
OEM XP and OEM Vista licences.  So it makes loads of sense for them to stop
one and start the other.

As for upgrades, the only upgrades I've ever done were various DOS versions
and Win3.1 to Win95.  Every other time, I've taken the OS that came with
the machine and stayed with it for the life of the machine. (Hmmm, stricly
speaking, that's not quite true ... I did some beta testing of MS Project
Server several years ago so I took my then-current machine and installed
Win2000 Server on it -- not, strictly speaking, an upgrade.)

I expect that most people (not Homeless denizens, of course) are like that:
 they buy the machine with the OS and live with it.  It follows, then, that
upgrades are a small, barely measureable, percentage of overall OS sales.

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:49:41 -0400, mike  wrote:

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> Another view:
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6551429.stm
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> ===
> Windows XP to be retired in 2008
>
> Windows XP will stop being available on new PCs from the end of January
> 2008.
>

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