With the emphasis on IE7 and Windows Vista, Microsoft has announced that the next Service Pack for Windows XP will be delayed until 2008.
2008?
Already some of the press is speculating that this is part of a Microsoft push to get people and businesses to upgrade to Windows Vista.
Like that’s going to happen… Microsoft is going to have to do a real sales job on WHY we ought to upgrade to Vista — given that we’ll have to spend a fortune on the latest video cards and memory to upgrade our current computers.
Of course, notebook users like me will be out of luck. We’ll stay with Winodws XP until we replace our notebooks for other reasons. Vista’s cute graphics won’t be usable on our notebooks, since most of our notebook video cards don’t meet the graphics requirements for “AeroGlass,” so Vista would revert to XP-style graphics.
With Microsoft saying 512MB memory minimum, you know that means you need 1GB if you want to run one program — and 2GB if you like to multi-task like I do.
Windows XP is here to stay for a long time.
