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Ending some spectulation on our part of exactly how newer EeePCs and their competitors would continue offering Windows past this summer comes news of Microsoft giving Windows XP a stay of execution until 2010 for what they call “ultra-low-cost PCs”.

Windows Vista only officially supports 1 Ghz processors and up, as well as 20GB of HD space. Would make it kinda hard to cram that onto a 4GB SSD wouldn’t it?

There is some speculation trailing from this announcement that Microsoft may actually be planning on releasing Windows 7 sooner rather than later due to the statement that they would support Windows XP until 2010 or 1 year after the release of Windows 7, whichever is later. Here at CLUMPC we think that this sounds more like Microsoft covering their tail in case Windows 7 comes out even later than expected, not the opposite. Remember, Windows XP came out in 2001 and its still around. We may even see it being sold with certain machines a full 10 years after its release. We wish we could say that that was a testament to how good it was, but unfortunately it speaks to how poorly received Vista has been thus far.

Linux distros have their work cut out for them for at least the next 2 years on the UMPC front it sounds like. Microsoft axing XP in favor of Vista certainly would have provided a huge head start for OSes like Ubuntu Mobile. Hopefully we will continue to see newer UMPC-targeted distros that help move the industry away from a 7 year old OS.

[Via CNET News.com]

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