Hey guys,

Just wondering, does anyone know what will happen to XP after June 30? Will Microsoft allow people to use it freely, or just be avaliable illegally (or resold only from old stock).

They don't lock it down.
It'll only be available OEM, or to people who've already bought it (or until it's out of stock)

or as an illegal download lol

it will only be available pirated,ofcourse the updates will go on...

yeah, updates will continue till around 2012. Meh, looks like i better stock up on XP licenses if I want to have a business selling old laptops...

i have an activation bypass for all version of xp that microsoft cant trace. if you want i ill compress it and mail it to you.

^^ That probably wouldn't be a good idea, even if untraceable.
It's for a business, you've gotta be 100% legit.

This post was last modified: 03-10-2008 04:28 AM by Kyle.

Yep. So sounds like I'd have to bundle the computers with either some linux distro, or raise the price to include 512MB to install Vista basic.

Microsoft has further extended the life of Windows XP so that computer makers can include the operating system on low-cost desktop PCs, the company announced at the Computex trade show on Tuesday.

Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_852573C40...technology

I also found that you can just downgrade from Visso Vista Basta it seems, and not only to XP, but to Windows 95 if you wanted to.

I know Paul Thurrott received an email from soneone that was asking for an apology from him about that now they are going to lock XP so that you can't activate it anymore, and that your forced to move to Vista, so clearly, there is a lot of FUD about this. Oh well...