Microsoft Buries Windows XP in Windows Vista
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 26.7.2007
Recommended: Click here to check for outdated driversWindows XP might not be officially declared expired, but Microsoft has done its best to completely drown the operating system in Windows Vista references. Want to witness first hand the Redmond company's desperation to push Vista over XP?
Then simply make your way to the official Microsoft Windows XP webpage. Alternatively, you can simply click on the first image at the bottom of this article. I have already highlighted a few focus areas for you. Although this page is supposedly reserved for Windows XP, the volume of Vista references far outweighs the mentions of its predecessor operating system, ostracized at the bottom of the screen.
But maybe Windows XP is too much of a "general" concept for Microsoft and associated with Windows Vista instead. No problem. You could always try and get specific information about Windows XP Home Edition, Professional Edition, Media Center Edition, Tablet PC Edition and Professional x64 Edition. There should be absolutely no problem there, right? Wrong! Well, if you are looking for Windows XP Media Center Edition and the Professional x64 Edition then you are all set. These two editions of the XP operating system have not been corrupted by Windows Vista.
But when it comes to the remaining three editions... The Windows XP Home Edition will deliver all you need to know about Windows Vista Home Premium. The webpage for Windows XP Professional features the Windows Vista Business edition as a top story. And Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 is just an excuse to advertise Windows Vista Ultimate. Now, in all fairness Microsoft should push Windows Vista to the foreground in the detriment of XP. After all, Vista can only grow in the space currently occupied by Windows XP on the operating system market. But do you think that Microsoft should exercise just a tad of subtlety?
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Comments(6)
i guess microsoft thinks everyone has piles of cash laying around to go out and buy up
vista. i wonder what the final figure of xp operating systems are out there? maybe
microsoft needs to loose 50% of the market to other os's before they wake up and not
abandon thier customer base with poor support.
after windows95 they started to believe they could sell even rubbish. many people say
that xp 6 years ago was like vista now. but at that time there was no choice... you had to
stick with windows. now there is ubuntu and even dell, ibm and hp are starting to sell pcs
with linux preinstalled. macosx is selling well considered that you have to buy a mac (a
bit expensive...) to use it.
if at ms they have to touch the bottom to change their
mind, well they're on the right way. i would like to recommend bill gates the reading of
a fairly famous book: the mytical man-month by fred brooks. i believe vista resembles by
many ways the old mistake-os made by ibm (os/360). if they don't change their mind one of
the dinosaurs drawning into the tar pool on the front page of the book might be their next
os.
whilst i have to agree with you, you seem to base it in facts that are utterly wrong.
when xp was released, severall distros of linux had already very powerfull
graphical installation procedures and were very simple to use. on top ot this, comparing
xp (with the classical interface) with 2000, there aren't many big diferences for the
normal user. the same cannot be said for vista. i actually felt like i lost control on
many things - my personal opinion is that it was developed having novices and mac users in
mind.
os/360? i think you may be refering to os/2. a system that although
labeled a failure was still very much alive and working in many big organisations. it was
actually a very good os.
don't get me wrong, i don't like vista,
unfortunately, we will have to live with it and support it. and this is what is driving me
mad!
when i said simple i was refering to the installation procedure around the year 2001.
but now that you mention it, linux isn't that bad. true, when linux started,
somethings were a pain, but dos was nearly the same. you had to learn it.
nowadays,
some distros allow you to install an application file in the same way that you would do
with windows.
at the end of the day, i have to support both platforms. to be
honest with you. microsoft has its onw users and it works for then, in the same that linux
has its users and ...
cheers
hi ! i not totally understand what about this topic, but i have experienced in computer
using and i know all about windows operating systems. i allwasy use this, linux have a
very " lagg " from windows so it will be taken many years until they will make an
universal operating system like windwos. by the way the windows family need and allways
need to be become new and have to update, so in time the later windows versions will be
unusuable becouse of the innovations and high upgrading of pc world. so i think this
problem about windows xp to windows vista is overtalked, when windows xp was released i
was used windows 98 secound edition for a year ? why ? cause my computer is not changed,
that's all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/os/360
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By DrKar on 27.07.2007 - 07:07