http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
Too early to tell at the minute though, since that's all that has been revealed.]]>Jun 24th 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
Gets rid of the most annoying ads so it's good enough for me.

For those who don't know it, Flashblock displays an empty box for any flash on the page. In the middle of the box is a large "play" button so you can play any flash on demand (e.g. youtube).


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(now waiting for some smart ass to start a Mac flame war...)]]>Jun 24th 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
Liked ur letter to Mr.Gates.

also, tell your girlfriend to put a shock collar on you so that when you come on engadget, you get a tiny, painful shock.


Even the stupidest man is considered wise when he keeps his mouth shut. ]]>Jun 24th 2008 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
dude chill out you are obviously just an apple fanboy trying to push apple upon everyone. If I was gats and recieved that letter I would just laugh. you clearly are just a narrow minded fool who has been brainwashed by apple.

and fyi I use Leopard, Vista Ultimate, and Ubuntu. Out of the three I personally prefer Vista. Its not bad. get over it.]]>Jun 24th 2008 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
You seem to be confused between maintaining a market whilst selling a new product. Care to guess how many newly sold PCs have Vista on them?]]>Jun 24th 2008 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
Although the fact that Captain Obvious was standing outside Ballmer's window waving red flags may have had something to do with it too. But hey, if your definition of "shrewd" is "picking up on the completely obvious", then sure.]]>Jun 24th 2008 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
I told you a few weeks ago that you would from that point on be known as cockboy to me. It's called consistency.

Sort of like how people are consistently buying Vista equipped new machines for personal use. As for corporate, you do realise that Vista's adoption rate is similar to XPs? Well, of course you don't, which is one of the reasons why you're such a... well, cock.

Now please: do us all a favour and slam your fingers in a car door.]]>Jun 24th 2008 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
Really? That was a shrewd decision? Or was it just the obvious thing to do to maintain their corporate userbase? As I said, doing it because they're "shrewd" is not the same thing as doing it because they pretty much have to.]]>Jun 24th 2008 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
a) Dude with backwards baseball hat who yells at friends for not drinking enough at bars while inappropriately hitting on the waitress

or

b) Nerdy gamer dude who got picked on too much in highschool to be able to develop social skills and thereby ends up thinking trying to be a bullying ass will make him look good.

Could you help me decide which it is?]]>Jun 24th 2008 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
dude you don't know the histroy between Zak and Mark(and other Window users), so just just let them talk things through.

And as a Mac-user why does Zak have to comment on a Windows article?

To all the stupid people going into articles about the the thing/companies that disappointed you and you hate now, you don't need to go back and bitch about it.... No matter what evidence you provide to support your arguments, you personal opinion shows through...]]>Jun 25th 2008 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 25th 2008 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
Definitely a).

Why, what are you going to do about it, soft lad?

@cockboy

Please, for the love of God, look up the corporate XP adoption rates for 2001-2007.

Seriously.]]>Jun 25th 2008 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
What will people do when software companies decide to not write their applications to be compatible with XP anymore? Software increasingly, over time, requires the need for a more powerful machine and OS. Yet, people moan and groan that Vista is utter garbage. I believe that the Apple marketing has done a good job on informing the public of what Vista is like. If you were working for Apple Inc., wouldn't you be happy because of the wonderful marketing done that has set people's minds when they haven't even used the OS yet? That is just awesome and sad. As a tech, I see people tell me Vista sucks and yet, they are asking me what OS they should get for their new machine. The next question I ask is, "Have you used Vista yet?" The common answer is, "No, I just heard that it was different." Sad, pitiful people who hate change and technology.

*This rant was written on a Vista machine, next to a Ubuntu Server and XP machine.]]>Jun 24th 2008 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/That's why i have vista on seperate partition, the theory if the market shifts to Vista before Windows 7 comes out then I'll be ready to go.

PS: a quick google search will reveal an easy way to dual-boot XP and Vista.]]>Jun 24th 2008 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
Oh snap!

I look forward to a force install of Service Pack 52!]]>Jun 24th 2008 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
Curiously people slag Vista off without ever mentioning this though, despite just how craptastic Leopard - or Leoptard as it came to be known - was on release.]]>Jun 24th 2008 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
OK.]]>Jun 24th 2008 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
You continuously reference Microsoft fanboys, but I have never seen or heard of one. I've seen loyal fans of the Xbox brand, but not Microsoft as a whole, and certainly not Windows.

I think most people at Engadget don't dislike Apple, but rather, dislike the specific type of people who are their loyal-for-life, elitist customers.

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There are companies still out there with NT4 machines as the OS is quite stable and very fast. Probably the same reason for XP, the stability is very good.

Why doesn't Microsoft just release their old OS'es to the Public Domain, so others can utilise the benefits. I cannot see them losing XP in the wake of Vista. But if Microsoft stops supporting old OS'es like 98 why can't M$ at least make them free to third world countries?]]>Jun 24th 2008 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/When doing business, morals, ethics, is on the side...
Imagine going to a store, and you see a product and it says next to the price. "Nha! don't buy it, it really sucks! You see that hinge there, yea it will brake. It will be in liquidation soon, if you really want it, it will be 80% off. But it would still be better for you to get the product next to it...." Yea, I admit, it would be nice. No more cheapo products, however so many companies will close their doors.]]>Jun 24th 2008 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/If money is to be made... then it should be taken. If Microsoft does this, people would stop buying their product wait until it gets free, and get it for free. A sacrifice you do once (by staying with the same OS for all these years) but after that you can just update for free on every new release. Also third world countries are not cut out of the world... so anyone in the world could get it easily.]]>Jun 24th 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
How tragic is this that our whole world decides the fate of individuals, culture, and ecology on cost benefit analysis? Fuck that, time for a new paradigm.]]>Jun 24th 2008 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/Jun 24th 2008 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/
Then again I was running Win95 on my PC up until 2002 when I switched to Mac. ]]>Jun 24th 2008 6:14PM