Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:09 PM codingsanity

Save Windows XP

InfoWorld have a petition you can sign to ask Microsoft not to discontinue Windows XP on June 30 this year. More details can be found here.

In many respects, Vista is like the Windows Millennium Edition that was meant to replace Windows 98 in 2000 but caused more trouble than it was worth. At that time, Windows 2000 was promising but didn't support a lot of hardware, so users were stuck between two bad choices. Without admitting Millennium's failure, Microsoft quietly put Windows 98 back on the market until the fixed version of Windows 2000 (SP1) was available. Microsoft needs to do something like that again today.
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# re: Save Windows XP

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:33 PM by bad-syntax

This is my understanding on the whole Vista drama.. With new technology comes new hardware and so you need new processes that can work with the hardware, and the so birth of the 64 bit operating system.. imo this is the reason why it's such a big mess up..because it would be expected to be a mess up, but it would have to happen at some point, because 64bit is way of the future, obviously. In any case, I like my M$ XPSP2, i'm gonna see if I'm able to sign that petition..

peace, rich

# re: Save Windows XP

Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:36 PM by Jed Marshall

I agree that we will need to move to a more rebust 64bit OS someday.  But after 3 months of trying to get all of my LOB apps to work with Vista today is not the day.