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Thursday, June 27, 2002
The Who's John Entwistle Dead [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]
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>Goodbye Windows 98 and Windows 2000 professional. If you want to buy a new computer with anything but Windows XP on it, you better do it by June 30. After July 1 Microsoft is forcing all of its OEMs to stop selling computers loaded with Windows 2000 Pro and Windows 98. I'm very suprised that I haven't seen more news about this. I work for NEC and after June 30 we will not be selling any computers that don't have Windows XP loaded on them. Microsoft weilds a lot of power over the OEMs by offering discounts that if taken away would destroy even a pretty large business like NEC. Please note: I haven't seen the contract. I don't know what it says. All I'm reporting on is the effect. No more "non-Windows XP sales" after July 1. Some retailers will sell their stocks after July 1, but they won't be able to buy new machines after that date. This is particularly dire for large corporations that haven't yet started to get into Windows XP. This will force them to adopt XP. [Scobleizer Radio Weblog] comments < 8:07:41 PM
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