Microsoft is planning to stop sales of Windows XP on June 30, forcing users to convert to the Vista operating system. Infoworld is circulating a petition to save Windows XP here.
In May 2007, XP had 82.25 percent of the OS market. Vista had just 3.75 percent, according to Net Applications, which measures the market share of operating systems. As of March 2008, XP maintained 73.59 percent of the operating system market, while Vista had only 14.02 percent. Yet Microsoft intends to force the majority of its users to switch to an operating system that's still full of bugs, runs slower and requires more memory? This hardly seems fair. If you oppose the idea of switching from XP to Vista, consider signing the petition or writing Microsoft with your concerns.
Microsoft is facing a class-action lawsuit in federal court over misleading advertising claiming computers sold with XP are capable of running Vista. The suit alleges that labeling some PCs as “Windows Vista Capable” was misleading, as many of the computers were not powerful enough to run Vista’s features.
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If you're an American, fed up with stupid spin in the presidential campaign cycle, this is well worth your time.
Dumb and dumber
It seems Sir Elton John, a British citizen, can't legally contribute money to the Clinton campaign. Now both Clinton and McCain are breaking campaign finance laws!
And the Army Times slams John McCain for his confusion over Iraq.
Nice post. I support users who favor Win XP :). I even posted a link to it to the forum for writers here: http://www.writersclub.net/medley/help_save_windows_xp-t156.0.html
You are welcome to comment.
Posted by: Forum for writers | 22 April 2008 at 15:34
Hmmm I don't know about ALL computers, but my computer at work, a simple PC, ran on XP and was switched to Vista, and I don't have any problems at all, except I have some problems with double documents. So I don't know what this is all about. Guess I haven't had enuff exposure.
Posted by: ARTZYJUDIE | 16 April 2008 at 14:12
Well, I would say the most effective way to handle deleting Windows XP would be for everyone to threaten to switch to MAC. I do both and would cheerfully go to MAC exclusively if Vista was the only alternative. I don't like being pushed around so this would be my little way of pushing BACK.
Posted by: annieelf | 16 April 2008 at 01:58
I'm there. I posted this one on endomental yesterday. My love/hate relationship with Microsoft has added a little more weight to the "hate" column. (Those quotation marks were for "tangobaby.")
Posted by: boliyou | 16 April 2008 at 00:48
I'm signing! Don't ask me how much I hate Vista...
Posted by: Jeanie | 15 April 2008 at 21:15
I wish Windows had never happened and that Mac ruled the computer world but I do see what you are saying.
On the subject of Elton John and Clinton - I am fed up of Politics and the Music Industry mixing it up. I just wish they would all get real and stick to doing what they are supposed to do. Finally Elton John is a male diva who I wouldn't follow if he was the last bloke on earth.
Posted by: Di Overton | 15 April 2008 at 17:09
Thanks for proviging the petition Tara! Signed, selaed and delivered!! I don't like Vista, and I am soused to XP. I do think it is unfair. I don't understand their thinking...unless of course it is just a bunch of $$$$ in their eyes!!!!
I am disgusted with the latest set of attacks on Obama, by HRC. She has even put together a ridiculous ad saying he is elitist and out of touch!!! Meanwhile she slings back beer and whiskey shots and continues to get away with lying about, well, everything.
Thanks for the link to Robert's Blog! Great article!
Posted by: My Melange | 15 April 2008 at 13:33
yes that is definitely wrong. My favourite system is windows 98, so simply and easy and XP isn't so bad but I've tried Vista and it's awful. I'll be sticking with my xp system I think.
Posted by: Amy | 15 April 2008 at 08:54
tara, you will be shocked to know that you are my news source. don't shake me! i do not watch the news on television or read the paper. if i am in the car at the appropriate hour i will listen to npr. but my trips around town with little boys are brief so i rarely hear much. since i met you online i have tried more, as i used to do, to be aware, to listen, to the constant rabble and to siphon off the noise and hear the moral of it all. thank you for leading me slowly back to the power of my informed vote.
Posted by: kelly snelling | 15 April 2008 at 06:54
I had not heard about Windows XP, that is so wrong!
I got caught up in reading the prof comments and I agree with Obama but not his delivery. What a shame the media is just waiting for something to pounce on. Thank goodness HRC has Bill or Obama would be out. HRC is not being accountable for her lies.
Thanks for the heads up! XXOO
Posted by: Tammy | 15 April 2008 at 01:29
Wonderful art exhibit below!
I throughly enjoyed it, especially the little "L" shaped things!
Sandra Evertson
Posted by: Sandra Evertson | 15 April 2008 at 00:52
I can't help you save Windows XP because my heart won't be in it (I'm a Mac girl through and through). But I would like to thank you for that link to Robert Reisch's blog. He is a very bright guy and I'm glad to read his take on this ever-disheartening campaign.
When I saw that "news" article about Obama this morning, I just wanted to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head. How is it that everything about this election--all of these new "discoveries"--looks to me like a blatant manipulative infomercial created to subvert this election?
I just have to continue hoping that people are smarter than the "news" media thinks we are. Okay, I'll stop using "quotation" marks now.
Posted by: tangobaby | 14 April 2008 at 23:52