Microsoft has announced that while its plans to discontinue sales of Windows XP are going ahead, it intends to offer support for the software for a further six years.
In 2007 Microsoft announced that it would extend the sales period for Windows XP until June 30, 2008. With the deadline due in a weeks time, the company had to keep its customers who shunned the shoddy Windows Vista happy.
Gary Chen, a Yankee Group analyst said, “Many users are happy with XP and have been pressuring [original equipment manufacturers] and Microsoft to let them keep using it without being forced to upgrade to Vista.”
The extension of tech support will impact both enterprise-level customers as well as average users,? he said.
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