SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will keep selling a version of Windows XP for use on a new breed of low-cost computers for at least two years longer than the older operating system will be available on mainstream PCs.
The software maker said Windows XP Home will be available through June 2010, or for a year beyond the release of the next version of Windows, for computers like Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC and ASUSTek Computer Inc.'s Eee PC. Those machines have smaller hard drives, less memory and slower processors than most Windows computers sold today, and most would have a hard time running the bulkier Windows Vista.
The Classmate PC is currently marketed with Windows XP Professional, and the newest editions sell for between $300 and $500. The Eee PC, which costs around $400, comes with a Linux operating system.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_microsoft_xp_extension.html
OK so the lower-income families get to have the better version of Windows while the people who invest a little more in their computers get stuck with Vista. Why don't I just quit my job and stand on the unemployment line, maybe I'll have a computer with software that i can actually stand to tolerate
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