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Beginning as a thin veneer for older software code, it has become an obese monolith built on an ancient frame. Adding features, plugging security holes, fixing bugs, fixing the fixes that never worked properly, all while maintaining compatibility with older software and hardware - is there anything Windows does not try to do?
Painfully visible are the inherent design deficiencies of a foundation that was never intended to support such weight.

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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday 1 hour, 19 minutes ago REDMOND, Wash. -
Microsoft Corp
. is scheduled to stop selling its
Windows XP operating system
to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don’t want to be forced into using XP’s successor, Vista.

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Beginning as a thin veneer for older software code, it has become an obese monolith built on an ancient frame. Adding features, plugging security holes, fixing bugs, fixing the fixes that never worked properly, all while maintaining compatibility with older software and hardware — is there anything Windows doesn't try to do?
Painfully visible are the inherent design deficiencies of a foundation that was never intended to support such weight. Windows seems to move an inch for every time that Mac OS X or Linux laps it.

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Beginning as a thin veneer for older software code, it has become an obese monolith built on an ancient frame. Adding features, plugging security holes, fixing bugs, fixing the fixes that never worked properly, all while maintaining compatibility with older software and hardware — is there anything Windows doesn’t try to do?
Painfully visible are the inherent design deficiencies of a foundation that was never intended to support such weight. Windows seems to move an inch for every time that Mac OS X or Linux laps it.

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Intel pursues narrow Windows Vista rollout Thu Jun 26, 2:33 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -

Intel Corp
(INTC.O), the world's
biggest chipmaker and decades-long business partner of

Microsoft Corp
, has no immediate plans to roll out the software
giant's
Windows Vista
operating system to all its employees.

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The Mythical 'Vista Application' Randall C. Kennedy, Infoworld 1 hour, 41 minutes ago I love analysts. Whether it's predicting tomorrow's next big thing or sounding the death knell for yesterday's industry pacesetter, analysts never run out of new ways to get it wrong.

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Microsoft Pledges Windows XP Support Through 2014 By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
Tue Jun 24, 10:56 AM ET In an unprecedented move,
Microsoft
has committed to providing support services for its soon to be retired
Windows
XP through 2014 — a full 13 years after the
operating system

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