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on May 20, 2014
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China bans use of Windows 8 on government computer...
Microsoft has a yearly increasing price for supporting XP. It wouldn't take very many years of that for it to become silly.
yulaow
on May 20, 2014
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And also microsoft keep supporting xp ONLY IF the client had made a plan with deadlines to upgrade his current configurations.
vijayr
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So what happens if a huge client (like the Chinese govt) says either Microsoft support XP or they drop windows for ubuntu (or something similar)?
freehunter
on May 20, 2014
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I would imagine Microsoft wouldn't much care at this point. They give away Windows 98 for free. If people demanded they support XP for free forever... I don't think they're going to do that.
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