Ætlanin var at tað ikki skuldi bera til at keypa vanligar teldur við Windows XP eftir tann 30. juni 2008 (men bara hesar nýggju smáu farteldurnar). Men so varð hendan loysn sambært TG Daily fyrst flutt til 31. juli, síðani til tann 31. januar 2009; og sambært downloadsquad ber tað enntá til at biðja um eina ókeypis XP útgávu afturfyri eina Vista, líka fram til 31. juli 2009.

Og sum tey á downloadsquad skriva: For anyone keeping track, the operating system was first introduced in late 2001. It's already nearly 7 years old, and at this rate, you may still be using it in another 2 or 3 years. Which is to say that either this is the best operating system Microsoft has ever produced, or Windows Vista is really just that bad.