Microsoft Extends XP To May 2009 For OEMs

beuges writes "Microsoft has announced over the weekend that it would allow computer manufacturers to receive copies of XP until the end of May 2009, shortly before Windows 7 is expected to hit the market. This should allow users to skip Vista entirely and move straight to 7, which has been receiving cautiously favorable reviews of pre-release and leaked alphas."

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Someone draw this

[jollyreaper]

I sense a future cartoon. Guy brings home a pretty young thing wearing a W7 shirt. He sits down, gets cozy with her, but then what's this? Her face is starting to peel in the corner. She reaches up, grabs the flap of skin and pulls it away to reveal the snarling lizard face of Ann Coulter below it! "HISSSS!" she says. "Not Coulter! Vista!" Aiyeee!

If Microsoft can't get ahead of the "lipstick on a pig" bad press, W7 will go the way of Vista. And I don't think anybody's really being fooled at this point.