Microsoft To Extend Windows XP Sales As Vista Concerns Mount By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
Fri Sep 28, 11:20 AM ET Responding to some customers' lukewarm embrace of Windows Vista,
Microsoft
said it will extend by several months availability of the operating system's predecessor,
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The latest evidence that Vista has fallen flat on its pretty Aero face has arrived in an
announcement from Microsoft
that it will continue selling Windows XP due to customer demand for the older OS. Microsoft had planned to stop selling XP as of January 31, but now will sell it until the end of June.
Earlier this year some PC manufacturers, most notably Dell, started offering XP as an option on many of its new PCs, also because of customer demand. That so many people would prefer a six-year-old operating system over Microsoft’s latest and greatest speaks volumes about how badly the folks at Redmond botched Vista. It’s a far cry from the overwhelmingly enthusiastic reaction that greeted Windows 95 a dozen years ago.
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. The extension applies to both retail sales of XP and the company’s OEM deals with major manufacturers.
“There are some customers who need a little more time to make the switch to Windows Vista,” says Mike Nash, the head of Windows product management, in an interview on the Microsoft PR site. “We’re responding to feedback we have gotten from our OEM partners that some customers will benefit by extending availability of Windows XP.”
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The latest evidence that Vista has fallen flat on its pretty Aero face has arrived in an
announcement from Microsoft
that it will continue selling Windows XP due to customer demand for the older OS. Microsoft had planned to stop selling XP as of January 31, but now will sell it until the end of June.
Earlier this year some PC manufacturers, most notably Dell, started offering XP as an option on many of its new PCs, also because of customer demand. That so many people would prefer a six-year-old operating system over Microsoft’s latest and greatest speaks volumes about how badly the folks at Redmond botched Vista. It’s a far cry from the overwhelmingly enthusiastic reaction that greeted Windows 95 a dozen years ago.
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Will Microsoft change its approach to Windows development? Will it think twice next time before adding new functionality that could compete with standalone programs? Those are a couple of the big questions following the denial of the company’s antitrust appeal Monday by the European Court of First Instance.
Here’s what Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, said on the subject when I spoke with him yesterday afternoon.
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against the landmark antitrust ruling handed down by the European Commission in March 2004. Brussels found Microsoft guilty of abusing its dominant position by clamping down on competition in the media player and server software markets. The Commission said the group had illegally bundled its own Media Player program into Windows; it also found Microsoft had refused to supply interoperability information about Windows to rival companies.
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EU victory leaves questions for Vista By JESSICA MINTZ and AOIFE WHITE, AP Business Writers 1 hour, 4 minutes ago SEATTLE - European antitrust regulators’ victory over
Microsoft
was a resounding smack at the software maker’s old business practices, but it left analysts divided as to how the company’s new businesses, including Windows Vista, might be affected.
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NetPlay Software releases Instant Demo Screen Recorder Version 6.5, an easy-to-use Windows screen recording application that creates Flash movies for presentations, demonstrations and training. Version 6.5 is "Certified For" Windows Vista and introduces a suite of new features including support for Flash movies of several hours, automatic callout text navigation, direct Internet publishing, and new menus with over 30 keyboard shortcuts.
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Microsoft says it’s reconsidering how it updates a key piece of Windows plumbing after a newsletter questioned the stealthy manner in which the company delivered a recent batch of software fixes.
An article in today’s Windows Secrets newsletter
presents evidence of a recent case where Windows downloaded and installed a set of fixes, without notifying PC users. The article says this happened even when users specifically set the operating system’s Automatic Updates panel to check with them before downloading or installing updates.
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Microsoft Updates Windows Without User Permission, Apologizes By J. Nicholas Hoover
InformationWeek
Thu Sep 13, 4:00 PM ET
Microsoft
has been quietly updating Windows even when users have turned off automatic updates and without notifying users, according to reports and posts on Microsoft discussion boards.
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