Microsoft does not want to postpone the funeral of Windows XP

June 30, 2008, sales of the Windows XP operating system worldwide will be permanently discontinued. From that moment, only Vista will remain, and it will be practically impossible to get a licensed box with XP, although the old OS will continue to be distributed through OEM channels for corporate customers. A few more years will pass, and Microsoft will stop issuing security updates for the "obsolete" OS, so that it will remain only with the most marginal users.

About 85,000 Windows XP users, outraged by this prospect and unwilling to upgrade and install Vista, signed an online petition demanding an extension of Windows XP sales for an indefinitely long period.

And now Microsoft has given an official responseafflicted. It explains that, firstly, the company postponed the end date of Windows XP sales for half a year, because it was originally planned to say goodbye to it on December 31, 2007. Secondly, there is no reason to postpone the deadline again.

In general, even if activists collect a million signatures in defense of XP, this is unlikely to save her.