Windows XP will no longer be available in a couple months.
According to Microsoft, they are ending their sales of Windows XP late June 2008. The product will be continued to be supported through April 14, 2009 and there will be extended support available until April 8, 2014. This includes all versions of windows XP.
Microsoft also has new operating system on the horizon, Windows 7. Considering the problems I had with installing Vista originally, I think I will wait a year or two before installing Windows 7. Let them work out the bugs. You would think that with each new version, they would have LESS problems. But apparently not the case.
Anyway, I am happy to report that as of late, I haven’t had any significant issues with Vista on either of my machines. In fact, I recently upgraded to a quad core with 4 gb and this thing smokes compared to my Pentium D. If you’re on a system that isn’t at least duo 2 core, then it’s time to start thinking about upgrading. I am SOOOO glad I did. The speed of the quad core is awesome.
A word of caution, however. For those of you upgrading memory and Vista. Since I use a lot of graphics design software and run many programs at the same time, I thought I would upgrade to at least 4 GB of RAM. Well that’s the max Vista can handle. And in fact, Vista can’t even handle ALL of the 4 GB because of the graphics card. So if you do upgrade go with a least 3 GB, anything more is pretty much a waste of time and money. Keep that in mind.
Good luck XP users, the end is near…