Microsoft to continue OEM sales of XP in 2008

Microsoft announced in mid April of this year that they would cease sales of Windows XP to retail outlets and resellers by the end of January. That does not mean that sales to original equipment manufacturers would stop. That will continue. In fact Microsoft predicts good sales of Microsoft Windows XP through 2008. I suppose you have to stop and think about this in perspective. Is Microsoft Vista still not attractive enough to lure more customers to it, or perhaps customers are still waiting for service pack 1 to come along for Microsoft Vista? Christmas sales for PCs did not do as well as expected in December 2006 because Microsoft Vista was delayed. Microsoft really needs to plow ahead and have SP1 ready by Christmas (December) 2007 if they wish to persuade more XP users to change their operating systems and also provide customers with an incentive to upgrade. Many XP users are refusing to upgrade until the Vista SP1 is ready.