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A petition has been launched online to actually save, not condemn, a Microsoft product.
“Please complete this petition so we can add your name to those who want Microsoft to keep Windows XP available indefinitely, rather than force users to upgrade to Windows Vista,” says InfoWorld, which is behind the project.
“With your support, we can convince Microsoft to spare XP’s fate of being discontinued on June 30, 2008.”
The effort is marred because InfoWorld just couldn’t resist sticking an advertising hook at the end with, “Would you like to receive other IT-related content and special offers from pre-screened third parties?” - posted at the bottom.
Still, the point is made: things are looking decidedly dark for Vista, the much vaunted, much taunted, Windows product.
If people must have Microsoft on their systems, they want XP, they say, and they don’t want it to go away.
States the Associated Press >>>
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.
Meanwhile, InfoWorld sums things up like this >>>
- The (Post-SP1) Vista Verdict: Wait for Windows 7
- Service Pack vs. Service Pack: XP SP3 Beats Vista SP1
- Businesses Having Second Thoughts about Vista
- Farewell Vista, Hello XP
- HP CEO: Vista Never Had Its Moment in 2007
And it’ll only get worse unless Microsoft pulls its metaphorical finger out, warn two analysts, said p2pnet last week, quoting Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald at a Gartner-sponsored conference in Las Vegas.
Microsoft, “must make radical changes to its operating system or risk becoming a has-been,” they said.
Stay tuned.
InfoWorld - Learn more on why XP should be saved, April 13, 2008
Associated Press - Their Passion Is Windows XP, April 14, 2008
must make radical changes - Microsoft Windows are breaking, April 11, 2008
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April 14th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Don’t miss the big picture, Vista is full of DRM. Microsoft wants everybody on Vista.
Enough said.
April 14th, 2008 at 8:52 am
VISTA NO WAI!
April 14th, 2008 at 9:21 am
I am using Vista to post this right now, and I have to admit, Vista sucks. It’s a crap OS that focused more on eye candy than what really matters.
If I could get half my games to run on Linux, I’d drop Microsoft altogether.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Vista is just awful. Here are several things I hate, that I found in the last couple of days:
- Vista does not work with my peripheral hardware. They say the hardware is not compatible, but in reality, it’s Vista that’s not compatible.
- Vista searches for folders called “VIDEO_TS” for me, and it tells me it’s found some. But it doesn’t tell me where they are.
- Vista has hidden the “Run…” menu item.
- It doesn’t matter how many places I set “view -> details”, there’s always somewhere new for it to show me huge, pretty, and useless icons. Just now, it’s the search window. Don’t you get it, you stupid OS, I want details. ALWAYS. EVERYWHERE.
- I leave a long program running, and I come back to find the computer has gone to sleep. Why are there fifteen million options for power saving? I just want my computer to finish the job I gave it.
There are more, I just can’t be bothered to list them.
If I had wanted a computer that looked great, but didn’t work with anything, I’d have bought a MAC.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:53 am
I too am using Vista. It has not performance improvements for productivity that I can use. Eye candy its got but eye candy don’t get the things I need done, done. Why pay for all this extra hardware to run this bloated slow boat with an expensive price tag?
If M$ had went the other way with the OS, making it more productive at working out your things that need done, instead of the eye candy, they would have made something that made more sense to upgrade to.
As it is, the OS has to stay on till the warranty is gone. Once it’s gone you can kiss Vista goodbye. It’s search features are terribly slow on large drives that are not indexed. It’s aggravating in an extreme to have to wait while the drive is scanned between every folder change (while you drum your fingers waiting), the searches are unnecessarily resource hungry (starts a new search for every letter of your search term you type), and if you have a large drive, you get a tour of it when making a new folder. New folder will show up at the end until named, once clicked off the folder naming so that it takes the name, its off to find it’s alphabetical place and leaves you to go seek where it went. Could they have purposely made it any more aggravating?
April 14th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
“- It doesn’t matter how many places I set “view -> details”, there’s always somewhere new for it to show me huge, pretty, and useless icons. Just now, it’s the search window. Don’t you get it, you stupid OS, I want details. ALWAYS. EVERYWHERE.”
Have you ever tried Total Commander? Does just about everything Explorer does and more. Works great, is customizable and doesn’t use up a ton of system resources.
http://www.ghisler.com
April 14th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I don’t think I will ever install Vista on any of my machines. Maybe I’ll like whatever OS Microsoft puts out after Vista but until then I’m using XP and Kubuntu on all my machines.
April 14th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
@ Stray Mongrel: That’s exactly what I am thinking, about being able to make games work under Linux. I think that the game companies are starting to smarten up about that though (ie. Unreal Tournament 3 is supposed to come out for Linux). When Ubuntu 8.04 comes out, it’s gonna be some mad experimentation for me with Wine!
April 14th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I don’t call it Windows PISS-TA for nothing.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:04 am
I’ve been running Vista for about six months now. Compared with XP it’s vastly more stable, a lot more user friendly, has great features you’re continually discovering and just generally makes life easier. If people are happy with XP, then fine (you do need to spend money on a decent mid-range machine to run Vista) but why keep knocking a system that’s so superior in many subtle ways?
April 15th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Calling most people “windows xp fans” is a bit strong. Just call it the lesser of two evils.
April 15th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
at the end they are going to do whatever is more profitable no mather if you people want to save the XP!soo dont bother.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
“at the end they are going to do whatever is more profitable no mather if you people want to save the XP!soo dont bother.”
That is where you are WRONG! If nobody stands up and demands change, it will never happen!
You want to talk about profit? OK, let’s talk about Microsoft losing their shirt on this OS, because they hyped it so much and it turned out to be a piece of software most companies will not touch with a ten foot pole!
They have lost a LOT of money on this OS and if you believe I am wrong, try reading about vista on the net and see if you don’t come up with ten times more negative publicity than positive!
There is a reason for that bad publicity….and it is NOT as some idiots claim that only people with lower end machines have problems! Plenty of higher end machines have just as much if not more problems running the OS.
No wonder sales are so low, it is a piece of junk OS, pure and simple!
April 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I’ll be honest, I never liked XP either.
I still prefer Win98SE, because it doesn’t force me to waste CPU cycles on a ton of crap services I don’t want or need.
I currently have WinXP on my desktop, with all my start menu settings, and display settings to make it appear like the old Win98. The exact same for my Vista here on my laptop. I have disabled Aero, and have all the settings to give the flat appearance of Win98. I do not want or need superfluous background applications eating up resources.
I hate that I cannot network my home computers anymore. Two Win98 machines readily network, but my XP and Vista machines refuse to file share through a firewalled router, even after using the useless “wizard”. On top of that, the XP and Vista machines refuse to network together without running several other services I would rather not run.
Windows is a system that thinks people are too stupid to control the setup of their own machines, and wants to convolute the process beyond what is reasonable. The convolution increases exponentially as each new OS is released.
May 5th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Jon, why have you deleted every single comment I have posted on p2pnet for like the last month? Just wondering.