Change Windows Vista to XP, you can until the middle of next year

Microsoft has provided the right collectors do daungreyd computer operating system Windows Vista Ultimate or Business to Windows XP Professional to the end of July next year, reports InformationWeek. Previously, Microsoft had planned to stop supplying Windows XP Professional within daungreyd program before the end of January 2009.

Microsoft representatives have stressed that this move will allow corporate users to easily switch to Windows Vista. It is anticipated that the opportunity to roll back the operating system to Windows XP should draw the attention of companies who for one reason or another are afraid to install Windows Vista.

However, corporate customers have been slow to move to Windows Vista. For example, a study by the Corporate IT Forum, showed that only four percent of British companies are working with Windows Vista. 35 percent of organizations of Great Britain said that it was not interested in Windows Vista.

The reasons that companies have been slow to move to Windows Vista a few. One of them - demands the operating system to computer hardware. In addition, a number of programs optimized for use with Windows XP, and adapting them under a new operating system requires a certain time and cost.

Sales Windows XP ended June 30. After that remain available only in Windows XP Home OEM-version to be installed in ultrabyudzhetnye computers. Supplies of Windows XP Home for ultrabyudzhetnyh desktops and leptopv last until mid-2010. Issuance of patches addresses a vulnerability and correcting errors in Windows XP, Microsoft will cease in April 2014.