Fine…we'll wait. That's the official party line from Microsoft today as the company agreed to alter its phase-out plans for Windows XP by five months. Citing the fact that many of its customers needed more time to make the switch to Vista, Mike Nash (pictured right), Microsoft's Windows product manager, admitted that the company may have been "...a little ambitious to think that we would need to make Windows XP available for only a year after the release of Windows Vista."
In a statement released today, Microsoft says it will now push back the XP cut off date from the end of January to the end of June.
After continuous petitioning by customers, Dell eventually agreed to start reselling computers with XP pre-installed after the it switched to Vista last January for home use. Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo quickly followed suit and offered similar downgrades.
Despite these trends, Microsoft maintains that its decision was in now way related to slow demand for Vista, or general reluctance to upgrade.
Nash claimed that Vista is gearing up to be the company's fastest selling OS in history, with more than 60 million Vista licenses being sold since the beginning of the summer. I wonder if the company's tracking how many customers chose to downgrade?
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