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The title might seem absurd or down right stupid to you, but it is true nevertheless. A couple of weeks back we reported that June 30th, 2008 would be the last day when Microsoft will ever sell Windows XP. Back than we didn’t knew that Microsoft will come up with such a lousy technique to sell Windows Vista or may I say sell Windows XP again.

Microsoft will not be selling Windows XP from today onwards and any one who wants to get hold of this Operating System would have to buy Windows Vista and than "legally downgrade" to Windows XP. This is the same technique that retailers use to get rid of their back dated inventory or items that couldn’t be sold out normally i.e. put them on sale or bundle them with a hot item.

Microsoft has taken the decision of abandoning the sales of Windows XP despite popular demand. A group of vocal computer users rallied around a "Save XP" petition on InfoWorld to force Microsoft into thinking otherwise, or at least keep selling it till we have Windows 7 in the market. It seems that Windows Vista is selling at such a low pace or lets call it not selling at all that Microsoft is left with no option whatsoever but to eliminate all competition to Vista. It turns out that the greatest competitor to Vista was none other than Windows XP, so unfortunately XP had to be shunned in favor of Vista.

Do we need any more prove that Vista is nothing but crap.