“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,” Jessica Mintz reports for The Associated Press.
MacDailyNews Take: The only “fans” of Windows are those who’ve not yet tried a Mac.
Mintz continues, “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.”
MacDailyNews Take: Why panic when you can simply get a Mac? You can even slum it with XP until you quickly figure out that you don’t want to boot Windows anymore.
Mintz continues, “Galen Gruman… a longtime technology journalist… started a Save XP Web petition, gathering since January more than 100,000 signatures and thousands of comments, mostly from die-hard XP users who want Microsoft to keep selling it until the next version of Windows is released, currently targeted for 2010.”
MacDailyNews Take: The depth of delusion boggles the mind. When the wheel was invented, do you suppose there were cavemen who just completely ignored its existence for years and instead clamored to “Save the Sled” instead of using the “New, Improved Sled with Spikes” that some Neanderthal had just introduced?
Mintz continues, “Microsoft already extended the XP deadline once, but it shows no signs it will do so again. The company has declined to meet with Gruman to consider the petition.”
More Luddite lunacy here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MidWest Mac” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: The Windows sufferers with their Stockholm Syndrome are just so amusing sometimes! They’re sitting in a leaky, rapidly-listing barge and we’re floating alongside in our gleaming yacht and they just simply refuse to get in. They always yell the same thing, too: “We just need one more patch!” Whatever. We have lobster to eat and champagne to drink.
A toast to all on the MDN OSX Yacht! *clink*
The difference I’ve noted:
Winduhz users just completely dread and fear system upgrades. Some still using pre-XP stuff.
Mac users can’t wait for the next upgrade. We stand in line for blocks at the store and cheer!
Joe and Jane SixPack deserve whatever flavor of Windows they continue to buy !!!!
Hmmm….
So MS continues to support floppy drives, parallel ports, and DOS in the name of “flexibility” and “choice”.
Yes, the same MS that’s about to force a Windows nobody wants onto their own consumers. The same Windows even MS is already scrambling to deep-six…
Apple, it’s time to gear up a massive ad campaign, and catch everyone who’s finally had it.
@raskol
“MDN: There’s no reason for your comments on this topic. These are IT departments and support people. They don’t have the option to go OS X. And they don’t want to support a bloated unnecessary Vista. All they need is XP. There is no compelling reason to ‘upgrade’ to Vista. They can’t run their apps under OS X.
So MDN, STFU. Your comments are beside the point.”
Raskol you are so blinkered in your reading of MDN’s comments.
How can you say that they don’t have the option to go OS X?
Are you saying that MS has the right to be the only supplier of operating systems to enterprise? Are you saying that the POS backward, upside down, insecure joke of a Windows operating system is in some way more capable than OS X?
OS X can do anything Windows can do only far better, more secure and far easier for the end user. We run out entire web hosting business without the requirement for any Microsoft crap and we don’t need an IT department to keep it all working either. That’s what IT guys are scared of. Becoming Dinosaurs.
However, if you really need to use ‘doze for some of your old software as MDN pointed out. With a Mac, OS X and either VMware fusion or Parallels Desktop you can run a copy of Windows XP to run any legacy apps you want and when you come to upgrade your apps you can get Mac versions or alternatives one at a time. That way you can be free of MS over time and take the pressure off your users by doing it gradually.
Now if you are upgrading your hardware, I can’t see any reason why you couldn’t contact M$ and tell them you want to transfer your license of XP to a new box. You paid for it so you should be able to have it running on a machine for life right? So as long as you give them your assurance that you will wipe the drive on your old dated beige box they should re-activate it. Or just tell them that your hard drive died and you are re-installing it. Either way it’s your copy.
So what’s the problem Raskol?
Telling MDN to STFU on their own website where they have the right to comment however they see fit is a little cheeky no?
What a chump!!!
I want my…
I want my damn XP
I want my…
I want my damn XP
Look at them yo-yos!
That’s the way you do it!
Forget that vista and stick with damn XP
Vista ain’t workin’
That’s the way you do it!
Blow your money on nothing
I thought shit was free
My next door neighbor uses Macintosh OS
It never crashes
The thing is virus free-ee-ee -eee!
I got to install all these damn patches
I got to install security-ee-ee-ee!
MDW friends as in “Friends don’t let friends use windoz!”
@ray
I know of one instance where Apple recommends a power down for hooking up external displays: the 30 inch display. I would guess that the hardware you were trying to hook up might fall into the same category and I believe you now know the reason why.
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@Raskol
STFU yourself:
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/gartenberg/archives/2008/04/the_myths_of_ap.html