Microsoft Extends XP Shipments Until May

From PCWorld: Microsoft is giving system builders several more months to get Windows XP for their custom PCs, ensuring XP will be out in the marketplace until almost the scheduled release of Windows 7 in early 2010.

Microsoft confirmed Monday that it is offering a "flexible inventory program" that allows distributors and system builders to place their final orders for XP by the end of January, but have those orders delivered until May 30, 2009.

The company stressed in an e-mailed statement that the move is not "an extension of sales." Still, it gives system builders and distributors the ability to sell PCs with Windows XP preinstalled for a bit longer than they currently have.

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