How long will Dell Continue to sell XP?

Does anybody know How much time I have?

My 6yr old Dell desktop is about done, but ideally I payoff a couple of bills before ordering a new desktop.

Thanks.

 

I don't think they have a deadline for it but a lot of people still prefer the Xp over the Vista so you should be good for at least a few months...I know when the 1525 came out this month people still wanted the 1520's for the graphics card so they brought that up in the website about 2 days later.

 

MS is going to stop offering XP at some point in May or June.

 

Thanks a lot guys, sounds like I have a few months then.
My laptop came with Vista, but I could not for the life of me get the file sharing on my network to work consistantly with it. I bought and installed XP Pro and everything is great. Really don't want to be stuck with Vista again.

 

1/ When people stop buying it.

2/ When the alternative is better.

 

Microsoft will stop selling XP through OEMs and retailers on June 30, 2008, while custom system builders have until Jan. 31, 2009, to pre-install XP on machines. - from pcworld.com

 

Nope, not even close. The real answer is :-
3/ When MS decides that XP will not longer be available to OEM's --> Sometime between Jan '08 and Jan '09 depending on whom you trust and whether you are home or business user.... See here:-

http://oem.microsoft.com/downloads/public/seo/winxp_sp2c.htm

Direct from MS
September 2007 Windows XP Professional SP2c available to system builders from their distributors.
November 2007 Re-release of Windows XP Professional SP2 to correct error in the localized builds of SP2c which is presenting end users with English content.
January 31, 2008 End-of-life for product availability of Windows XP for all channels except system builder.
January 31, 2009 End-of-life for product availability of Windows XP for builders.

See also:-
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/22/The-real-lowdown-on-Windows-XP-license-deadlines_1.html
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/04/12/xp-on-oem-hardware-not-after-january-2008
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/04/04/10397.aspx

 

They've extended XP's shelf life once already, and if the consumer still demands it post-Vista-revision, I'm confident that they will do so again. They're in the business of business, and XP (prior even to the launch of Service Pack 3) is still selling favourably.

The alternative for Microsoft is far worse a concept than us all still using their legacy flavour of Windows.

 

I agree with your sentiment, but MS are driving the last nail into the coffin as I type this. Whatever we might want, or believe is best for the customer, or is the right thing to do is irrelevent; MS has very clearly signalled the end for XP, and I hope they will go down with the sinking ship for ignoring their customer base in such a callous way. I for one have tried Vista on many different machines since early Alpha versions. IMHO MS have got it wrong, no way on this earth is Vista an improvement over XP. It sucks on so many levels I won't even start. I have access to a corporate version of XP Pro and will continue with it as long as I possibly can.

- Tim

 

I agree, that if MS really kills off XP to oem's it will mark the first time that many people will start looking at other OS's more seriously. Vista runs ok on my HP dv6500t but its too bloated. Vista has gone too far with the amount of bloated code it has. The hardware requirements are not necessary. If it was coded right it would be lean and mean like OS X and linux.

The networking on vista is bad.. really bad and slow. Apparently MS has fixed that disastrous bug that should never have been in the final version of vista. Hopefully when sp1 ships next month that will be fixed. But other then that, the sp does not do much if at all for productivity performance. Vista basically needs a complete rewrite to fix that problem.

 

SP1 does fix the slow network copy bug FYI... Oh and about 240 other serious flaws. Still at 500MB for SP1, its bloat on bloat.