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Campaign seeks to save Windows XP
Galen Gruman, an executive editor of Web site InfoWorld, said his online petition urging Microsoft not to discontinue sales of XP to retailers and major PC manufacturers, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Monday.
Microsoft released Windows Vista as a successor to XP last year, but Gruman said he and others have resisted the upgrade.
"I think the issue is that it's not meaningfully better than XP," Gruman said.
He said Vista's improvements in security and other areas are not significant enough to justify the inconveniences involved in switching to Vista, including several technical glitches found in early versions and the system's steep hardware requirements.
Microsoft has said there will be some exceptions to its ban on XP sales, including deals made with manufacturers of computers that do not meet the system requirements for Vista. Security updates and other software for the operating system will continue to be produced through 2014, the company said.
Gruman said he plans to mail a printed version of the online petition to the home of Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.
"Maybe the big stack of paper will drive it home," Gruman said.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 07/01/2008
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07-03-2008 18:30
Leslie S. wrote:
Save XP...
How do we sign the petition--is there a web site we can go to to sign it?
07-03-2008 10:36
Richard Bloom wrote:
Windows XP
It took me awhile to get use to XP but I think kit is one of the best Micorsoft has done. Vista, from what I have heard and read, is no better but has more problems. I have also heard that a lot of your programs, which worked on W98 and carryover to XP, will not work on Vista. A friend of mine which had Office for W98, because of her computer dying, got a new computer with Vista. Her Office, Microsoft's own program, would not work on Vista. To me it's another way Microsoft is sticking it to the public for it's own profit in the name of progress.
07-03-2008 09:26
rbR wrote:
save XP
I agree, Vista is bad news. If something works, why change it?
07-03-2008 08:48
zip wrote:
save xp
I do upgrades and have worked with computers since I was young. I prefer XP. I would spend my money on XP and it should not be discontinued. Vista should be discontinued and xp should just have shell upgrades.
07-03-2008 06:19
stericats wrote:
save XP
I do QuickBooks. All my clients that have tried to upgrade to Vista could not access QuickBooks and we went back to XP. And they had to buy new printers! Not very happy campers with Vista!
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