On the 30th of June 2008, Microsoft are stopping PC manufacturers offering the Windows XP operating system as an option on new PC’s to make way for Windows Vista. Microsoft are however, releasing what one would imagine is a ’stripped down’ version of XP which will be supported until June 2010. One slight catch, this version will only be available for ‘low end’ PC’s.
The definition of ‘low end’ you ask?
No greater than 1GB RAM
A Hard Drive of 80GB or less
Processor Clock speed of 1GHz maximum
These maximum specifications are for Laptops and Netbooks only, Microsoft has yet to announce details for Desktop PC’s. I can only imagine this is to try and ‘compete’ with Open Source alternatives, which in most cases are ideal on older hardware. We’ll just have to see how this pans out in reality.
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