i guess most of you know that this awesome OS will soon meet it's demise by 2010.
All support will be gradually reduced by that time.

and yet, Vista is not a great replacement with all those hardware and software incompatibilities.

petitions are pouring into microsoft to at least extend WindowsXP before a replacement for Vista is avilable.

Aww man thats terrible, Xp can still go on being used for atleast 5 years, it's the greatest dos there is right now.

This sucks, I like Vista and XP but I love using XP still. I know it could still do well too if they kept it up for few years, but whatever I don't mind Vista especially when I'm working on music.

some other PC manufacturers are still shipping products with XP loaded like Dell, so though they will stop producing this OS, i believe they will still be supported for some time.

Thank heavens! It's about time this operating system died.

Manufacturers are actually selling PC's installed with Windows XP as 'downgraded' pc's.

The VISTA license agreement contains a clause allowing you to downgrade to Windows XP which is great!

I think XP is great..i can see myself using it for another 7 years if need be

I happen to like XP - for the most part. MS does this with every OS, once they release a new one, they start to wind down it's predecessors, it's a planned obsolescence schedule, you have to KNOW this was coming. However, considering the poor adoption rate for Vista, retiring XP now doesn't seem like such a bright idea.

Get your voice heard -- take the poll:

http://lifehacker.com/384068/should-...xtend-xps-life

Maybe Microsoft will get the message!

well just went to the poll and vote, I like XP better that any other OS at least.

i think that xp's existence must continue until Microsoft create much better os than vista, still xp is one of the great os being built by Microsoft.

I don't know why people complain about Vista so much. It is a great operating system with an outstanding interface upgrade and lots of feature that I now find indispensable. The software compatibilities aren't that bad if you're using quality software, and I haven't experienced a single hardware compatibility issue when using newer hardware (i.e. < 5 years old.)

From a business perspective, this is the right move to make for Microsoft. They can't support Windows XP indefinitely, just like they won't support their previous operating system indefinitely. They need to be able to shift resources over to Windows Vista and Windows 7 in order to make them as good as possible.

Originally Posted by tamar

Get your voice heard -- take the poll:

http://lifehacker.com/384068/should-...xtend-xps-life

Maybe Microsoft will get the message!

I voted that no, they should not extend XP's life. It's been too long already. Vista is pretty lousy, but that doesn't mean we should try to run back in time. Windows Server 2003 is still the best operating system I've ever used.

Where are the polls to extend the life of Windows 95 and Windows 3.1?

Hey, I still have a pc with a win98 SE somewhere.
It runs great, and is pretty stable. Perfect to test something in IE6 or to run some legacy applications.

I heard they are actually extending XP now, so the petitions must have worked. I'm considering moving on to Linux once XP is out of date.

Windows XP will be obsoleted just as Windows 98 was obsoleted previously.
All the new PC/Laptop do implement build in Vista now since microsoft are planning to use Vista to take over the Windows XP. And they are really work hard on develop Vista recently

I dont know why microsoft stiil supporting vista... Windows XP such a good OS going to die

wait for windows 7, it will be just around the corner. i bet it would still be slow. for me i don't want to go back to xp. i don't know why but i just dont like to, or maybe aero made me change my mind.

Originally Posted by davin

I dont know why microsoft stiil supporting vista... Windows XP such a good OS going to die

I don't know why Microsoft is still supporting XP when DOS 2.1 was such a good OS!

it is better to retain windows xp than vista, i don't know why microsoft wants to diminish xp so fast!