“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.