Windows XP is Dead

A wire from the Associated Press with the title "Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday" (June 30, 2008) carried a story saying that the six-year-old Windows XP meets its eventual end.

Microsoft will cease the sale of its Windows XP operating system. My previous post on the subject in December 2007 materialized as retailers and hardware vendors stop the distribution of the most popular and most bootlegged operating system. Will this mean that PC users who don't want to use the beefy Vista will be forced to drink the juice?

This may be Microsoft's way of clamping down on Windows piracy. Users who want to use XP should buy the higher Vista categories, then "legally downgrade to XP." The software giant is paving the way for the anticipated and more advanced Windows 7 by killing XP.

XP's legacy will still cast a long shadow with the sprouting affordable UMPCs which opt to use XP instead of Vista.