Microsoft had originally planned to stop selling licenses on June 30. But it extended its deadline of selling Windows XP licenses, because its new Windows Vista OS is widely seen as too resource hungry for very low-cost laptops. Nettops is Intel’s term for machines like the upcoming Eee Box and other PCs designed primarily for simple tasks like checking e-mail or surfing the web. Low-end PCs like Nettops don’t have the horsepower to run Windows Vista.
Paradoxically hardware limitations and costs extend the lifespan of the old OS.
http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_852573C4006938804825745D0035EE3E.html
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Let us just use the old versions of OS and Office. Sometimes I think there is no consideration of users' expertness on the old version of software, when the providers release the new versions. Especially, office 2007 look so awful to get used to operating this.
I think MS might admit that from this article they have gone too far by releasing Windows Vista considering users' PC specification and customers demand. When releasing Vista, MS thought Vista would change the PC environment dramatically but it wasn't because it is too heavy to install and use. I hope we as users could surely affect MS to release user favorable OS in terms of usability and price before 2010.
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