Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer is saying the company could re-consider phasing out of its most widely-used operating system — Windows XP — after June 30, if customers so desire. Ballmer was speaking at the Louvain-La-Neuve University in Belgium. Last year Microsoft announce that Microsoft will stop selling the copies of Windows XP by the end of June 2008.Even with the latest announcement, Ballmer has been quick to add that while they could re-consider phasing out of Windows XP after June 30 if the customers so wish, in actuality.

A petition titled “Save XP Web” launched by Galen Gruman, executive editor of Infoworld, has garnered support from some 165,000 people till date; as the name suggests, it demands that Microsoft continue selling XP until the next version of Windows is out, currently scheduled for 2010.

This seems to be a good move by Microsoft to give consumers an option to stay with Microsoft Windows Operating system otherwise instead of using Windows Vista consumers are moving towards Mac or Linux. You can read more about Why Vista  may Collapse  

Source TechTree 

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