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[Operating systems]| Friday 4th April 2008 |
Microsoft was originally slated to stop selling XP on 30 June, but as the emerging class of diminutive laptops don't have the necessary hardware to support Vista, XP has been granted an extension until 2010.
However, the company is not altering its technical support strategy for XP, with free live support and warranty
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Microsoft was keen to squash any suggestion that this could lead to a reprieve for other versions of XP saying that it was happy with the "progress" being made by Vista.
This is the second time XP has dodged its death sentence, after extending sales by an extra five months amidst poor uptake for Vista.
Intel has recently revealed its Eee rival, the Classmate PC 2 which the company has earmarked for European sale, unlike the original. Read about it here.
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