As Microsoft wants to sell Win7, they are quickly raising the price of XP so that its not economically feasible to buy it (which I would do if I were Microsoft also). In the last 2 months, they have raised the price of a valid OEM copy from $129 to $169. I do not think this will stop either, it seems like a $20 rise every 2-3 weeks. Its at the point ($30 higher than Win7 Pro) where its not justifiable to buy it.
BTW, its not just profit motive behind Microsoft's decision. One of the main drivers is that XP comes with Internet Explorer 6. Today, believe it or not, IE 6 is the most used browser in the world! IE6 is a horrible program, it is very buggy, does not adhere to any internet standards and the most current standards of X/HTML will not work with users running IE6. So, Microsoft is also using this as a motivation to stop propagating IE6 as they need to kill its use before all the users start complaining that it doesn't work with xxxx website. If you have XP on your PSDR system, stay with it (but upgrade to Firefox!). If you have a choice and the price difference from XP to Win7 is more than $20, pass on XP and go with Win7 32 bit! 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ _______________________________________________ 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://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
