At 04:46 PM 7/22/2008, Robert McGwier wrote: >http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-xp/future.aspx > >On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Newegg still has it in stock. > > 73, Jim KQ6EA > >
As MS says... In industry speak, this is called "end-of-sales." On June 30, Microsoft will stop distributing Windows XP as a stand-alone product that you can buy shrink-wrapped in the store. We'll also stop sending it to Dell, HP, Lenovo and all the other major PC manufacturers to sell on their PCs. That said, Windows XP isn't going to disappear overnight. You may still see copies of the softwareor computers pre-loaded with itfor months, as stores and PC makers work through their inventory. Also, smaller local PC makersknown in the industry as "system builders"can continue to sell PCs with Windows XP until January 2009. Finally, Microsoft recently announced that computers with limited hardware capabilitiesdevices sometimes called Netbooks or ultra-low cost PCs (ULCPC)can carry Windows XP Home until June 2010 ---- As others have pointed out, this effectively means that Flex-radio will have to make an effort to get PowerSDR (or it's replacement) working on Vista over the next year, since it's not a great business strategy to sell a radio with operating software that requires something you cannot buy (a new computer with XP). One could do this in a very limited market (e.g. people sell power supplies for SB220s and old Collins HF rigs which have been out of production for decades), but, realistically, that's a garage scale operation, more like someone selling "repair parts" for Model Ts and the like. Flex is bigger than that. I don't see it being a big deal... tedious for Eric W. and the rest of the support crew at Flex, to be sure. Lots of issues will arise with folks doing upgrades to Vista on existing hardware (for which the odds of incompatibility and problems are orders of magnitude greater.. just like going from Win 3.x to NT), even though it's not really necessary to upgrade (after all, XP will be supported til 2014..). However, I expect people who don't have a dedicated computer and who upgrade other software will eventually find that they want to run Vista (because the new version of whatever only supports Vista). I would see some support issues, even if the New Architecture is totally cross platform functional, just because folks will want to stay with their old friend PowerSDR 1.x. Flex will have to make some decisions about what configurations they want to sell: since they won't be able to sell 5000Cs with XP after the end of the year, they could either sell PowerSDR 1.x on Vista or NA on Vista or NA on Linux. (I cannot conceive of trying to get PowerSDR running reliably in emulation or VM...) just my opinions.. Jim _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
