Windows XP going off the market in June

Windows was originally planned to go off the market in January 2008, but it was given a later death, June 30th, 2008. This means you might want to get it now or you’ll be stuck with those older versions, or worse, Vista.

Windows XP is still going to be available pre-installed on some computers, but chances are they will be extremly tough to locate. Nobody will be forced to upgrade to Vista, but with all the service packs and all that other shit coming out, you just might feel like Microsoft is bribing you to. Everything will keep working and product activation will still work after it XP stops selling, duh.  Some makers of labtops will be sold Windows XP because of compatibility until 2010, but everything around 2014 is uncertain. And even if Microsoft stopped product activation, the hacker community would guarentee make tons of tools to break through it.

You can still install XP on any computer with Vista already on it, maybe even run both at the same time. But XP is starting to reach it’s point in life and is probably going to be dead around 2016, if not later. Some day though, chances are Microsoft will have enough service packs and patches that some users might just try Vista, but face facts. That’s probably going to take a while.