After a press release a few weeks ago in which Microsoft announced the stop of XP sales six months after the release of Windows 7, the Redmond giant has changed its mind and extended the period until 2011.
Microsoft XP continues to assert itself as the preferred operating system among users (small and medium businesses) according to a survey conducted by Gartner Inc.; the respondents praised its reliability and stability, features that were lacking in Vista making it a major failure on multiple fronts.
Thus Microsoft, to meet the needs of companies, decided to make available the downgrade to Windows XP until April 2011, having the rights and requirements to do so.
Specifically, it refers only to the versions Windows 7 Professional e Windows 7 Ultimate, moreover, only purchases made by April 23, 2010, will be covered by this possibility.
After that date, however, the proposed downgrade is to Vista. In this latter case, one would face a paradox: if Windows 7 – born as an attempt to recover the functionality lost with Vista – does not prove popular and functional, the user would fall back to the very OS they were trying to escape. A vicious circle, at least that’s how it seems from this initial information.
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