Re: [opensuse] legalities

Billie Walsh wrote:
On 09/30/2007 Richard Creighton wrote:
Seein' as how M$ isn't supporting XP anymore, what would happen if you
had a hardware failure and *had* to install the latest 'offering' from
M$ on new hardware?

M$ said they would support XP till 2010.

I think he's referring to it not being available on a new computer.
That was recently extended to the end ofnext June, as Vista is not
selling well.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2190228,00.asp
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2189917,00.asp

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