From the ArcaMax Publishing, Weird News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/weirdnews/s-371297-468422
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- A San Francisco editor for a popular tech site
says he is leading a campaign to stop Microsoft from discontinuing
sales of Windows XP this week.
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.