Windows XP's Long Goodbye

Larry Hooper looks at the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 and sees the beginning of the end for the OS:

"XP lovers will likely be happy for a little while. But soon they will begin to realize something...

That 's it. There are no more upgrades coming. O.K., so Ballmer says Microsoft will be sensitive to XP SP3 users. I don't know what that means, but I am sure that doesn't mean we can expect an XP SP4."

But I'm not sure I'd say that the end of XP "looms," as Larry puts it. OEM's are enthusiastically taking advantage of their XP downgrade rights; XP fans are organizing to save their system; Dell is planning to sell XP until 2010; even Microsoft's Steve Ballmer refers to Windows Vista as a 'work in progress'.

In our forums, ChannelWeb members seem reluctant, at best, to start moving their clients:

"Any VAR that is suggesting it's clients move to Vista should be ashamed."

"You should not be selling [Vista] in a business environment until it is fixed, and that will probably be around SP 2."

"There is no legitimate reason for the small business to be forced into a short term rotation of software."

XP will be the OS that wouldn't leave. In the 90's, Microsoft's Windows updates (3.1, 95, NT, ME) made every IT shop a multi-OS shop. That's not going to change any time soon.

Don't miss our review of Windows XP Service Pack 3. You'll be getting to know it quite well...

Posted by Joe Caponi at 01:15 PM, April 29, 2008

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