[AccessD] OT - VISTA only and XP Phase out?

I promise you can stll get XP from Compaq/HP as I just recently ordered two
computers with XP installed.

I guess I should go ahead and replace my laptop now so I can be sure that I
can get XP in it as well.

Reuben Cummings
GFC, LLC
812.523.1017


> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of JWColby
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:44 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT - VISTA only and XP Phase out?
>
>
> >Doesn't make sense in the overall scheme of the way things happen.
>
> Unfortunately it does.  Microsoft had already cut off all XP installs on
> their OEM clients back around the 1st of January.  Apparently
> DELL leaned on
> them to allow DELL (specifically) to go back to XP preloaded machines, but
> you know that MS does not like it and wants to force Vista out there.  MS
> can and will if they so desire force the vendors to stop preloading XP on
> channel machines.  MS holds the cards here and they want XP out of new
> machines if for no other reason than that they have to support it for that
> much longer.
>
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:13 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT - VISTA only and XP Phase out?
>
> Have my doubts - HP & Dell have both stating offering the publics
> preloaded
> Windows XP on their PCs again (they weren't doing for awhile). And Windows
> 2000 is still supported. Doesn't make sense in the overall scheme
> of the way
> things happen.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of O'Connor,
> Patricia (OTDA)
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:35 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] OT - VISTA only and XP Phase out?
>
> Is the following true?  This could severely effect many needing new pc but
> having many older versions.
>
>
> Windows XP to be phased out by year's end despite customer demand Computer
> makers have been told they'll no longer be able to get Windows XP
> OEM by the
> end of this year, despite consumer resistance to Vista and its
> compatibility
> problems.
>
> By early 2008, Microsoft's contracts with computer makers will require
> companies to only sell Vista-loaded machines. "The OEM version of XP
> Professional goes next January," said Frank Luburic, senior
> ThinkPad product
> manager for Lenovo.
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