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Sounds like they're trying to force MS to continue supporting Windows XP. Doesn't MS already do this if you pay them? If so, China is trying to force Microsoft to continue to support XP for free. A bold move.


Microsoft has a yearly increasing price for supporting XP. It wouldn't take very many years of that for it to become silly.


And also microsoft keep supporting xp ONLY IF the client had made a plan with deadlines to upgrade his current configurations.


So what happens if a huge client (like the Chinese govt) says either Microsoft support XP or they drop windows for ubuntu (or something similar)?


I would imagine Microsoft wouldn't much care at this point. They give away Windows 98 for free. If people demanded they support XP for free forever... I don't think they're going to do that.




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