Subscribe by EmailA Call for Help: Save Windows XP!
January 18, 2008 by Kiltak |
Alas, if things do not change, Windows XP may currently be enjoying its last few months of existence. Even if it still dominates the market (76%), Microsoft has decided to stop selling the product starting June 30. From this point, updates and support for the OS will slowly start to fall into Microsoft’s room for retired projects.
As we all know, many people still prefer XP over Vista, and the Euthanasia of the OS is far from pleasing everybody. Fortunately, a bunch of journalists from the InforWorld magazine have decided to take the matter in hand and launch an online petition to keep XP from disappearing into Limbo.
For the magazine and many, many other Windows users, XP remains at the top of the hill when it comes to performance and stability, so why force people to adopt the newer, performance-gobbling OS? Of course, we all know the answer to that question, but this is not the subject of this article.
If you are interested in signing this petition, head over to Infoworld.com. Do your moral duty and help our old friend XP. It’s the least we can do! He’s been doing a hell of a good job after all.
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Too much hassle with getting it working with new custom built computer systems. Getting graphic cards working (the newer ones) and even newer hardware getting them stable is a nightmare compared to XP.
Sure still takes maybe an hour on XP, but I’ve already speant 2 weeks trying to get the same effect on vista without any luck thus went back to XP.
They should recognise Vista as one of their not so good projects (in the same box as millenium) and instead improve the current well working XP.
I only bought XP Pro in the middle of last year to make my Linux collection more balanced. I then found various places to get the window theme a little less primary, and hey, I love it! All the way to Jericho………
I’m looking forward to seeing the impact and content of SP3.
Thanks for the link: I took the opportunity to register at InfoWorld as well.
All the best!
This very well could be the downfall of Microsoft.
Okay not really, but it should be! Then maybe they’d realize their mistake.
Bootleg XP, anyone?
XP is still bearable.
…..try Linux then in the meantime. It will cost you £000.000.
I could recommend Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) as I write, also, Fedora 7 or 8, KDE 3 or 4 and eLive Gem (e17) and many others are definitely worth a look.
I still think the best idea for XP is for it to be given to the public. Then we could see just what good could be made of it. Or…..?
Have any of you even *tried* Vista, or are you just giving it sh!t because all the popular kids are doing it?
I have to use XP at work, and it is seriously disgusting compared to Vista (which I happily run at home). I’ve been running Vista at home since I first got my hands on an early beta, and haven’t looked back.
And everybody that complains about performance… My computer is an old school single-core 3 GHz P4, and I only have 512 MB RAM, and it runs great! Yes, there is occasional HD thrashing when memory is low, but no more than XP.