"Monday is the last day on which Windows XP will be sold as a boxed product or licensed to PC manufacturers.
However, 30 June is not the end of the road for the venerable operating system, which was introduced back in 2001. Although Microsoft is keen for users to switch to XP's successor, Windows Vista, that operating system has not been the success that was hoped for by Redmond.
XP will, therefore, continue to be made available in certain circuitous ways. Here is the sequence of events that led to the dilution of Microsoft's XP-killing strategy."
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39440953,00.htm
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