Philipp 6 Posted September 6, 2001 Industry retailers and major computer makers are responding to the growing excitement for the Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system by accepting advance orders for the software and by making Windows XP Ready PCs available for purchase today. Windows XP was released to manufacturing Aug. 24 and is scheduled to be available worldwide Oct. 25. "Consumers are eager to get a copy of Windows XP and don´t want to wait until Oct. 25," said John Frederiksen, general manager for Windows marketing at Microsoft Corp. "Consumers can preorder a copy of Windows XP today from one of several retailers or buy a Windows XP Ready PC from a computer manufacturer." Read more Share this post Link to post
Herris 0 Posted September 7, 2001 Microsoft is trying to create their own self-fulfilling prophecy. Although I think it will be a great operating system I don't think there is a great clamor to get it or upgrade as they are making it out to be, especially with such touchy issues as privacy and wpa. Share this post Link to post
