Submission + - Microsoft extends shelf-life of XP by five months (bbc.co.uk)
vivin writes: "The BBC is reporting that customer demand has forced Microsoft to extend XP's shelf-life by five months. Microsoft initially planned to stop selling the six-year old operating system on January 30th, 2008. But customer demand has forced Microsoft to push that date forward to June 30th, 2008. Mike Nash, Microsoft Window's Product Manager said, "...maybe we were a little ambitious to think that we would need to make Windows XP available for only a year after the release of Windows Vista.". Microsoft denied that the policy change was due to slow demand for Vista. Mr Nash said that up to the summer of 2007 Microsoft had sold more than 60 million licenses for Vista and that this put it on track to be the fastest selling operating system in Microsoft's history."