Windows XP is alive and kicking’

A leaked email sent to an OEM revealed that Microsoft extended the option allowing OEMs to sell PCs with systems that are “downgraded” from Windows Vista to XP for six more months to January 31, 2009.
This of course indicates that the demand for Windows XP is higher, compared with Vista. Surely thats why Microsoft tried to infuse some new blood with the firm’s recently launched $300 million Windows advertising campaign that is designed to push Vista sales , but we are quite sure that any user who now purchases a Windows XP , is unlikely to ever upgrade to Windows Vista.

Recent market data analysis revealed that more than one third of new PC buyers choose to downgrade their Vista installations to Windows XP. Another research revealed that enterprise users, one of Microsoft’s key markets, are even less inclined to dump XP for the newer operating system.

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