Microsoft could keep XP if customers want it: CEO

**MIG-31** · Apr 24, 2008, 03:11 PM

LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium (Reuters) - Microsoft could re-think plans to phase out its Windows XP operating system by June 30 if customers show they want to keep it but so far they have not, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said.

"XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies we can always wake up smarter but right now we have a plan for end-of-life for new XP shipments," Ballmer told a news conference on Thursday.
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Source: Reuters

**Mousey** · Apr 24, 2008, 03:17 PM

Methinks a massive rise in piracy will start if MS stop selling XP, the fact of the matter is people are stupid. They won't accept change (unlike us here at DH, but we aren't human, we're too smart

).

BlueMak · Apr 24, 2008, 05:07 PM

Change is not always the best course of action. ;p

mike2h · Apr 24, 2008, 06:38 PM

change is good... unless its bad.

|2A|N · Apr 24, 2008, 07:27 PM

Change isn't so bad once it gets used to [COLOR=RoyalBlue]YOU[/COLOR]..!

Apr 24, 2008, 03:11 PM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,854 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	Microsoft could keep XP if customers want it: CEO LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium (Reuters) - Microsoft could re-think plans to phase out its Windows XP operating system by June 30 if customers show they want to keep it but so far they have not, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said. "XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies we can always wake up smarter but right now we have a plan for end-of-life for new XP shipments," Ballmer told a news conference on Thursday. ____________ Source: Reuters __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Apr 24, 2008, 03:17 PM	#2
Mousey Synth's Long Lost Bro Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Web Design Hell Posts: 7,189 Rep Power: 245 System Specs	Methinks a massive rise in piracy will start if MS stop selling XP, the fact of the matter is people are stupid. They won't accept change (unlike us here at DH, but we aren't human, we're too smart ). __________________

Apr 24, 2008, 05:07 PM	#3
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,481 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Change is not always the best course of action. ;p __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Apr 24, 2008, 06:38 PM	#4
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,483 Rep Power: 91 System Specs	change is good... unless its bad. __________________

Apr 24, 2008, 07:27 PM	#5
\|2A\|N SE7EN57 Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Virginia Beach, VA Posts: 358 Rep Power: 72 System Specs	Change isn't so bad once it gets used to [COLOR=RoyalBlue]YOU[/COLOR]..!