Rusty
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Credit the emergence of the Little Laptops and entry-level desktops, like OLPC, etc.; Win XP has been extended to 2010, here.
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StarWars
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Rusty
Do you have a dual boot (Linux/Win XP) .. 
"Faced with either bumping the expiration date of XP or letting Linux eat the entire emerging market"... 
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Greg K.
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Credit the emergence of the Little Laptops and entry-level desktops, like OLPC, etc.; Win XP has been extended to 2010, here.
That's good news.
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csa/montana
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Rusty, that's great news for the XP users (like myself!)
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NeoDinian
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And by 2010, hardware prices will be a lot lower, and vista should be well tested and fixed! 
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Joe Lalumia
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On my new business desktop--- duel core--- I had XP installed after I had read that Microsoft was going to continue support.
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Edited by Joe Lalumia (06/05/08 09:13 AM)
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Rusty
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Rusty
Do you have a dual boot (Linux/Win XP) ..
Nope, and it looks like I won't have to; wouldn't have much need for Linux anyway.
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basel10
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And by 2010, hardware prices will be a lot lower, and vista should be well tested and fixed!
It is well tested and fixed now.
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Strgazr27
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That depends on what your hardware and software config is. I can tell you it's NOT fixed on ANY of my 3 machines 
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Spoonsize
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Having lived thru the XP and VISTA releases, my next will still be of an apple origin.
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ClownFish
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CF
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Joe Lalumia
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All I can say is that my XP business computer has NEVER crashed --- in the last 5 years with the old computer--- and the last 6 months with the new duel core Pentium computer.
I don't know what else I could ask for in a computer?
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BlueMoon
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Loc: Idaho, USA
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Having lived thru the XP and VISTA releases, my next will still be of an apple origin.
Same here... This was pressed home by the Vista compatibility and XP SP3 service pack fiascos... 
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Jeff
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Tom L
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Thanks for the XP news update, Rusty. Smart move by Microsoft to keep XP going. Considering some of the responses I see here I will shut this one down for the time being...
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Tom 
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