MICROSOFT GIVES XP REAPS AN EXTRA 2 YEARS TO LIVE

Microsoft revealed today it will persist to trade Windows XP Home beyond its timetabled June 30 kill-date for the up-and-coming class of "ultra-low-cost PCs," or ULCPCs. The operating system has been approved a grant a stay of execution until mid-2010, but only for the very small notebooks such as the Asus EEE PC and Intel�s Classmate PC which be deficient in the hardware necessary to run Windows