Actually Microsoft has seen the new trend of mini laptops like the Asus EEE than can crank XP well. Microsoft is betting that XP will be around for a few more years on those new devices.
I would also bet we are close to seeing a handheld computer running XP instead of Mindos Mobile.
XP won't be dead yet ... XP's support doesn't have anything to do with Vista other than maybe Vista is too big to run on mobile platforms.
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Won't microsoft just use it to cripple XP on order to push people to vista????
No, they actually improved performance by 10% with SP3. You must be thinking of Apple "Screw our Customers over" Inc.
Seriously though, this is update does make it faster.
Actually Microsoft has seen the new trend of mini laptops like the Asus EEE than can crank XP well. Microsoft is betting that XP will be around for a few more years on those new devices.
I would also bet we are close to seeing a handheld computer running XP instead of Mindos Mobile.
XP won't be dead yet ... XP's support doesn't have anything to do with Vista other than maybe Vista is too big to run on mobile platforms.