Confirming the rumors from earlier this week, Microsoft has announced it plans to continue selling Windows XP beyond the previous June 30, 2008 deadline. Under Microsoft's new end-of-life schedule, Windows XP Home Edition will continue to be sold with low-cost machines like the Asus Eee PC and Intel's Classmate PC "at least through June 2010." However, Microsoft says it also plans to keep XP on the market for a year after the release of the next version of Windows, which is expected some time in 2010. In other words, XP-powered machines could stay on the market until 2011 and perhaps even later if Windows 7 ends up being postponed.

Ed.note: The press release states that they will sell XP Home only, and pre-installed on these computers(Asus Eee, Intel's Classmate), however, OEM and retail copies of XP Pro are dead by June 2007.