Re: What's the story with the "end of XP"?

On 13 Jun, 19:18, ElderUberGeek <aribl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am designing a system that runs on WinXP, and perhaps later on XP
Embedded.
I now understand that Microsoft is going to stop selling XP on new PCs
in Jan 2008.
OK, but, does that mean the OS will no longer be available for
licensing? For those who chose to buy it and install it anyway? How
should one plan for such a product's lifecycle? (i.e. currently
designed for XP and coded on .NET VS 2005).

I suspect Win XP will be available on the likes of ebay for many years
to come.
I noticed a couple of copies of Win95 on there a couple of days ago !
I think I heard somewhere that XP will be supported until 2011
although no longer sold.

Unless you are doing very strange things I suspect your app will work
under Vista.
I have 3 programs I have written that all work under Vista no problem.



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