I've had that thought, Kurt. Still, has Microsoft ever needed really good
reasons for some of the decisions they have made?

Maybe they're doing it as a favor to those customers who will be forced to
buy Vista machines after June 30, but who will have downgrade rights to XP?

Alan

"kurttrail" <dontemailme@anywhereintheknownuniverse.org> wrote in message
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> why bother RTM'ing XPSP3 at all, if manufacturers can only sell it with a
> new computer for another couple of months?
>
> Is this a hint at MS prolonging XP's shelf life yet again? Not that I
> think that that would be a bad thing.
>
> Let's hear your opinions.
>
> --
> Peace!
> Kurt
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