Microsoft extends Windows XP deliveries to May 30, 2009
By Nilay Patel 
posted December 22nd 2008 11:34AM
posted December 22nd 2008 11:34AM
Man, Microsoft just can't bring itself to kill Windows XP dead -- it just extended the final OEM and reseller delivery date for the venerable OS to May 30, 2009. Vendors will still have to place their orders before the official cutoff date of January 31, but they won't have to take delivery (or pay, we'd imagine) until May. All of this is supposed to alleviate the problem of vendors stockpiling copies of XP -- it wouldn't be good for Microsoft if manufacturers start charging a demand-related premium for XP licenses after Redmond goes Vista-only. Of course, Microsoft also recently extended the Vista "downgrade" deadline for OEMs to July 31 and netbooks will still be able to kick it old-school until at least June 2010, so chances are you'll be able to get XP one way or another until Windows 7 ships -- let's just hope all this waffling on XP means that 7's going to be as good as we think it is.
i am gonna post something from another forum i posted on some reason why i love vista and hate XP and the issue you can have on the old GDI rendering system XP uses
Well GDI might be fast but it has tones of isssue that can occur such as if a window stops responding a few things can and usually will surface
Windows 95 to windows 2003 Kernel mode GDI win32 subsystem driver model
1: if window stops responding it will either crash and leave a huge white box and or block box on your screen witch a refresh does not nore will not always fix
2: if an application becomes busy or stops responding it can at time and most times cause other applications you use when dragging them to make copies of itself or more precisely look just like the Winning animation for solitaire.
3: if your graphics driver graphics or something related to it crashes 98% of the time your system will BSOD or recover but with badly reduced performance.
4: if an Application crashes or something else crashes it can blank your entire screen black and sometime takes mins to come back to full use only so slightly showing parts of your desktop.
5: All graphics drivers + other system driver are Kernel mode based so if a driver crashes it can as stated above causea system wide BSOD and crash the whole system Regardless but ther is small 2% case your system might still run fine and not BSOD
6: All above is known issue of windows since windows 95 on up to windows 2003
that is about it why GDI sucks and Developers do know this
now Windows DWM/ new graphics driver subsystem/ Model
Windows vista to Future version of windows User mode graphics driver model subsystem DWM compositing engine
1: none of the above will nore can occur while running the new driver model DWM graphics system and such.
2: if your app does stop responding you will have 3 options or more usually wait for it to respond close or restart application instance
3: if your graphics driver crashes it will not affect anything in your system Winbodws will simply restart the graphics driver
4: all graphics drivers in windows Vista and 7 and newer version of windows are installed in the user mode Preventing a driver When and if it crashes form being a system wide crash taking down the entire system
5: All of the above alone makes windows vista and windows 7 and future version of windows better then windows piror in so many ways Far better stability and reliability
In theory yes but in the real world it is not true, if a driver fail then it can happen because :
a) the driver is faulty (buggy).
b) a hardware trouble.
So, even in the case of the system can keep alive with a driver trouble, is the same if you break a leg, you still can walk but you don't want (and must) do it.
Anyways, the new model driver put (a lot of effort) in DRM.
Oh man, this makes me laugh. Vista has been out for years now, and Microsoft still can't kill XP. This almost makes me want to order a new XP computer, but I just bought this Toshiba laptop.
As of now, the word "bloat" has been banned, it's a cop-out for people who want to jump on the anti-vista bandwagon to look cool. "Vista's so bad" blah blah f*cking blah- Stop. Exaggerating. You. Fools.
Truth is, it's usable and it does the job just fine.
Is Vista too slow for you? Awwww diddums.... GET A NEW PC.
To the Mac users who chose to post: why are you even opening this article if you dislike vista/XP so much? Instead of bringing a valid, relevant point across, it seems as if you are just looking for an opportunity to show yourselves off; It's an article about XP, but some tool has to bring their greasy mac into it...seriously, shut up- e.g. On the first page, Paul Chapel: self-made marketers like you need to be hanged.
Yes!!!!!
It´s a good OS for Netbboks... Notebooks... Desktops...
Well, it´s simple better than Vista.
I like XP more than Vista but IF ALL NEW 64bit chipped computers came with Vista 64 I would consider switching.
If Microsoft wants to slowly get people to change over they have to push that notebooks and desktops come with vista 64 and stop the madness of so many computers coming out with the cheapest version of vista.
most do now. it annoyed me too that when vista was first released they did not include the 64 bit version on 64 bit machines, but i have noticed that most machines with the capability now do include the 64 version.
Windows XP--the operating system that just will not die....