Save Windows XP! The clock is ticking
Microsoft will end OEM and shrink-wrapped sales of Windows XP on June 30, 2008, forcing users to shift to Vista. (System builders, meaning those who do white-box PCs, can sell XP through December 31.) Don’t let that happen!
Millions of us have grown comfortable with XP and don’t see a need to change to Vista. It’s like having a comfortable apartment that you’ve enjoyed coming home to for years, only to get an eviction notice. The thought of moving to a new place — even with the stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, and maple cabinets (or is cherry in this year?) — just doesn’t sit right. Maybe it’ll be more modern, but it will also cost more and likely not be as good a fit. And you don’t have any other reason to move.
That’s exactly the conclusion people have come to with Vista. For most of us, there’s really no reason to move to it — yet we don’t have a choice. When that strong desire to stick with XP became obvious in spring 2007, major computer makers such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard quietly reintroduced new XP-based systems (but just to business customers, so as not to offend Microsoft). Come June 30, however, even that option goes away.
So what to do? Let Microsoft decide where your personal and enterprise software “lives”? Or send a loud and clear message that you don’t want to move?
We’re going for the loud-and-clear option. Join us, and tell Microsoft that you want to keep XP available indefinitely. Not for another six months or a year but indefinitely.
And ask your friends and colleagues to join in, too. Just point them to SaveXP.com for a quick link to this page. And if you’d like to publish our countdown animation on your Web site to help promote this petition, e-mail Executive Editor Galen Gruman for the code snippet.
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Saturday 03 May 2008 | Jerrie | Uncategorized
If MS forces people to vista, i will learn LINUX!!!! Now is the time for a big Linux push!!!!
Why would you want to? Friggin’ MMO’s. Put down the crack-pipe, man.
hehehe thanks… while I’m at it…linux FTW!
LOL ok? Where did all that come from? Sounds like I’m not the antisocial one. I already have a girlfriend and real-life friends too, thanks for your concern, though.
As the Technical Support Manager for a Web Based Database Application that has been repeatedly broken by Microsoft’s “improvements”, I am not anxious to see a widespread wholesale roll-out of Vista. Every client that we have who is running Vista requires 2 to 3 times the amount of support of any other client on either Windows XP or Windows 2000.PLEASE SAVE Windows XP for the foreseeable future. Mr. Lynn MoorheadTech Support ManagerAtlas Development Corporation
False credit too, with the urls stamped in the corner of most of them. Seems they’re double stolen, at the least.
I found that somewhat depressing…
For now, but end of life is still looming on the horizon. I for one would rather switch to Linux than have to upgrade my perfectly good hardware to support vista bloatware.
fuck vista, on the other hand this petition is identity theft proof?
Did he actually decide to grow that mustache? http://storage.vexade.com/000994/vexade.com_000994-39_the-clock-is-ticking.jpg
What, me? Anti-social? And on reddit? Wow.And what does already having a girlfriend have to do with finding more cute or attractive women to be around? You make it sound — Heinlein, be still in thy grave! — as though one is enough. Or that women are only good for sex.Silly man!
I, for one, as a network admin and outsource IT vendor, working in corporate and law office environments, still need my systems configured with XP Pro for the foreseeable future.Without Vista bashing, it is just a common sense move for me and my clients not to have to upgrade everything to support a new OS.For M$ to ignore that and shove it down our throats smacks of Apple policy to force hardware upgrades to match their software updates.
damm those advertisers and their changing ads!
Totally stolen. And no credit given either. I hate that.
Vista is a RAM hog and really user unfriendly…especially for high end users! What’s with ruining the menu options for MS Office as well…piece of crap…why did they change it that drastically? Time to learn the Google apps and move aways from MS forever!!