There was an announcement earlier this week that Microsoft is going to keep Windows Xp alive - as in still selling it until the end of January 2009. While retailers and manufacturers such as Dell will probably stop selling XP earlier than that, it seems strange to me that the folks in Redmond would be willing to launch what appears to be a vote of no confidence in its long-awaited and highly touted new operating system.
Most companies pull the older version of a product off the shelves when the new product is launched. I can understand that they may want to give the general public a chance to learn and embrace the new product, but it's unheard of (at least to me) for a company to keep offering an older product for more than a year after the new one is released.
Of course, if you read my article in the Snohomish County Business Journal about Vista, you know where I stand on the subject. And I can guarantee you won't find a single copy of Mac OS X Tiger on shelves for a moment after Leopard is released.
What do you think?
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