“Vista fiasco continues with retreat to XP”
Friday, April 4th, 2008Microsoft finally woke up and realized that people aren’t going to pay their usual rate for OEM copies of Windows when the PC itself is under $200, so they’ve decided to allow those computers to run Windows XP — the previous (and in many peoples’ opinion, better) version of Windows — instead of ceding the market to Linux. I don’t think it’s going to help them though.
Rumor has it that they’re frantically pushing to get the post-Vista version of Windows (presently simply called “Windows 7″) out as quickly as they can. That might help them stave off obsolescence, if they drop the user-hostile DRM code and produce something at least as good as Windows XP SP2… but I wouldn’t take bets on it.