Users fight to save Windows XP
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 16.4.2008
Microsoft Corp.'s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world's largest software maker.
But you'd never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac OS X or even the free Linux operating system. Unless it's someone running Windows XP, a version Microsoft wants to retire.
Fans of the six-year-old operating system set to be pulled off store shelves in June have papered the Internet with blog posts, cartoons and petitions recently. They trumpet its superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest PC operating system, whose consumer launch last January was greeted with lukewarm reviews.
No matter how hard Microsoft works to persuade people to embrace Vista, some just can't be wowed. They complain about Vista's hefty hardware requirements, its less-than-peppy performance, occasional incompatibility with other programs and devices and frequent, irritating security pop-up windows.
For them, the impending disappearance of XP computers from retailers, and the phased withdrawal of technical support in coming years, is causing a minor panic.
Take, for instance, Galen Gruman. A longtime technology journalist, Gruman is more accustomed to writing about trends than starting them.
But after talking to Windows users for months, he realized his distaste for Vista and strong attachment to XP were widespread.
"It sort of hit us that, wait a minute, XP will be gone as of June 30. What are we going to do?" he said. "If no one does something, it's going to be gone."
So Gruman started a Save XP Web petition, gathering since January more than 100,000 signatures and thousands of comments, mostly from die-hard XP users who want Microsoft to keep selling it until the next version of Windows is released, currently targeted for 2010.
On the petition site's comments section, some users proclaimed they will downgrade from Vista to XP — an option available in the past to businesses, but now open for the first time to consumers who buy Vista Ultimate or Business editions — if they need to buy a new computer after XP goes off the market.
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Comments(21)
uh! this same article was posted yesterday wth??
vista is a great os. i should know as i work for microsoft. if you dont like vista you
can lump it!
if you were an ms employee you could type lmao...
wish i did work for microsoft, would be better pay than i am getting now :)
yes thats right i enjoy licking penis.
vista is a great os. i should know as i work for microsoft. if you don’t like vista you
can lump it!
if you know where to find them, so many flavors out there. for the average user, its
going to be a bummer for their only to aquire one would be to purchase it.
it's funny... the people that are still using xp today are the same ones that were still
using win98se and win2k 18 months after xp's release, and they are as reluctant to change
now as they were then.
well..what else?
suck my penie microsoft
who gives a shit which ones betta as long as it works u douchebags
s.uck my penie microsoft!!!! to... ha
vista is ugly !!
is this tech news site????
it is pretty simple...macs are certainly garbage and 95% of the world thinks this
also...hence the sales. apple seems to have no problem stealing linux code for their own
profits. pretty lame. next, they will be stealing windows code (they already did to make
it look more like vista). as for xp...get over it and look to the future for better
security and things to come.
you little wonky-nerds...
the mac is the best if you want to use it, rather
than babble over it. does not seem to go for many of the socially inept retards around
here....
mac's a poor excuse for an os, its rubbish
mac was hacked in under 2 mins...just recent. so much for mac hype
i call it blista (blister) cause its big and annoying, kkep on using windows xp and
activate it yourself,itsa damn easy.
i want it everyday..
microsoft wants to move into the future and it dont help them when people hold on to
outdated hardware/software. vista rules ok for me. how would you like motor companies to
stop making cars just because you want to keep your citroen 2cv!
microsoft can blow me.
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By Ricky on 16.04.2008 - 23:04