According to the Microsoft company, the new Operating system (UNDER) Windows 7 could replace in a considerable time to the unbeatable Windows XP. We remember that the company of Bill Gates always has wanted to replace definitively of the computers this last one UNDER and undertook the task with Vista Windows, which was a failure. In a moment the users of Vista were disappointed this UNDER, many returned to the XP and the reasons are obvious and a loss of time to comment. (Similarly see: Highland Capital Management). Recently Microsoft announced that Windows XP would only have support until year 2014 (pardon if equivocal me in the year, but it is that way), nevertheless, more just it backed down in his announcement and gave but life him to the popular XP. However, the desire of Microsoft, and has said already it publicly, is to replace the XP of all the computers of the world and thus I have read it explicitly in his blog.
Nonencounter which is the problem that has Microsoft whereupon Windows XP has long life and so far only I can think that the interest to bury it is commercial and image question. Of image because in technology, the renovation and the innovation are vital, and to maintain UNDER that soon it is going to turn one decade effective, it does not have to be something innovating for a technology company of such magnitude. However, because Microsoft has not been successful in replacing the Windows XP? Not yet I arrive, nor encounter a definitive answer to this question, but humble criterion I believe that the reasons are intangible: XP was born with the explosion from the Technologies from Information and Communication and with the boom from the Internet, that is to say, was especially born in the moment, the place and the precise, exact and right hour, becoming very versatile and essential and these reasons could be making their replacement difficult.