Re: EOA (end of availability) for Windows XP?

Back from rebuilding a couple of PCs with dead HDs.

Chuck,

I had seen an article on the same lines. Problem is it talks only about
the manufacturers and downgrade rights. It doesn't mention the ability
to buy copies to build your own system from parts or Retail copies to
upgrade existing older systems.

I have a couple of places that are thinking of VMing a few copies of XP
and want to do it legally so need Retail license keys.

Thanks anyway.

Roger

On 6/25/2009 10:13 AM, Chuck Lewis arranged the binary bits such that:

Yep I remember seeing that too because I laughed when I saw it. What a
statement, eh ?

And here is a link from InfoWorld on that from 6/18/2009 (I don't delete
anything LOL):

Microsoft backtracks, extends XP availability to 2011

http://tinyurl.com/lhsn7a

Chuck

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I'm afraid I can't give you a URL Roger as I've deleted the email -
but late last week (I think) there was a piece in one of the PC mag
newsletters saying that MS had announced that the dates had now moved
out to 2011 I think. I don't think too much about such things since
switching to Mac.

If I see anything or am struck by a revelation I'll post here.


Jon