Digital Cross Fire

A few days ago, Microsoft announced once Window’s 7 comes out, they will not be giving Vista the old heave-hoe. What was said by a spokeswomen was that “We have not made any final end-of-sales decisions for Windows Vista”. What was made clear was that once an operating system released, it is company policy to keep an OS in distribution for at least for years after its debut. So, since Vista was released back in January of 2007, it means that Vista will stick around until 2011. “Under the Support Lifecycle policy, Windows desktop licenses are available for four years after general availability in all standard product distribution channels — direct OEM, system builders, retail and volume licensing programs via licenses or via downgrade rights.” The mainstream support for the OS  might be put to an end by April of 2012, around three years from now.  So those not wanting to upgrade to Windows 7 just yet, you still have a few years to make up your mind.