How Windows 7 Will Finally Kill XP

Microsoft's been trying to retire Windows XP for years, but Windows 7 will finally do the job.

Microsoft for some time has been wanting to kill off XP --- and when Windows 7 hits, the company will finally be able to do it. Here's why Windows 7 will let Microsoft pull the plug.

First off, it's no secret that Vista hasn't been embraced by enterprises, many of whom have treated it like the plague. That's unlikely to be the case with Windows 7. One reason: Vista wouldn't run properly on a fair number of PCs in enterprises when it was initially launched because the hardware wasn't high-powered enough.

Today that's no longer the case. Enterprises have gone through at least one round of hardware refresh since the Vista launch, and so now virtually all of their PCs will run Windows 7.

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I doubt it. They've had to stop supporting updates for XP before it's "killed".

XP forever

i love XP, and thats Bad news for me!!

currently using XP and loving it...

Why is everyone so down on Windows Vista, i mean yes it comes with that rubbish microsoft works, but, it runs, it works very efficiently i find. Yes i know it doesn't kill XP but why would you want to kill XP, what just disable so nothing works if you have XP, you HAVE to spend more than £100 on updating you computer hardware????

megatails5 wrote:

Why is everyone so down on Windows Vista, i mean yes it comes with that rubbish microsoft works, but, it runs, it works very efficiently i find. Yes i know it doesn't kill XP but why would you want to kill XP, what just disable so nothing works if you have XP, you HAVE to spend more than £100 on updating you computer hardware????

Vista runs fine IF you have decent hardware. While many of us do, Vista still uses more resources than XP does.