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Fans protest Microsoft's plan to dump XP
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 8, 2008 | Ellen Lee

Posted on 02/08/2008 12:24:19 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Goodbye, Windows XP.

Microsoft, which released its latest operating system, Vista, last year, plans to stop selling Windows XP in stores and through its PC partners on June 30.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: microsoft; msn; vista; winxp; xp
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To: blowfish

I am happy for me too :)


61 posted on 02/08/2008 1:50:59 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

I hear Vista’s nearly as good as ME


62 posted on 02/08/2008 1:51:57 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Yes. No one wants Vista. Everyone hates Microsoft. That's why they made over $2 BILLION in profits EVERY MONTH last quarter. Setting new revenue and profits records... Darn them they just can't sell a thing. Terrible to see them only make $24 BILLION dollars in profit this year, what with the absolute paucity of Vista sales...
63 posted on 02/08/2008 1:53:53 PM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation from the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible.)
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To: All

Someone oughta make a gif animation of the scene in Transformers when Sam jams the Allspark into Megatron.

But replace the Allspark with a Vista disc.


64 posted on 02/08/2008 1:59:13 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

I don’t think many are so-called FANS of XP - we use it because it’s head and shoulders better than Vista.

I know a lot of companies that will go all Linux if Microsoft gets rid of XP.


65 posted on 02/08/2008 2:15:37 PM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: Knitebane

What is the RPM for the Cisco client ? That and Quickbooks (used by my accountant) are the only things still keeping me on Microsoft.


66 posted on 02/08/2008 2:19:34 PM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
www.winehq.org

www.reactos.com

The beauty of adopting the above for support of legacy Windoze apps is that it further encourages Microsoft to abandon "embrace and extend" in favor of being the world's biggest patent troll.
67 posted on 02/08/2008 2:20:36 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: PaForBush

You and 110 million other users

>>>Been running Vista since March ‘07 - not one problem!


68 posted on 02/08/2008 2:24:41 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

My next machine is an Apple. Done with the pc crap and os fixes every day.


69 posted on 02/08/2008 2:29:52 PM PST by Pit1
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

It’s hard to guage VIsta sales accurately.


70 posted on 02/08/2008 2:29:58 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: COBOL2Java
Well, this strategy works so well with the Republican Party and McCain, I guess they thought "Why not?"

LOL! True. Go with a proven model.

71 posted on 02/08/2008 2:31:37 PM PST by TADSLOS (Estoy Juan McCain y apruebo este mensaje!)
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To: Richard Kimball
The problem is, can anybody at MS write code anymore?

I'm beginning to wonder, and I personally know a few programmers at Microsoft. I think the real problem is business decisions rather than programming decisions though. Legacy code, backward compatibility, Microsoft's own lax nature about standing by its own API's. I remember when Office used to patch the kernel upon install. There was an article a while back about Microsoft having hundreds of different implementations of the same string class internally.

When I worked at Apple I remember one thing that impressed me more than anything else was how clean the API was in comparison to Windows, and how respected it was internally. I really think that Microsoft needs to go back to the drawing board and create an elegant API and kernel. If they don't have someone up to the task there now, they surely can afford to hire one.
72 posted on 02/08/2008 2:35:41 PM PST by dan1123 (McCain has an American Conservative Union rating of 82.3; Clinton has a rating of 9.)
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To: YoungHickey

Have you ever used Ubuntu? I was a die-hard Fedora guy until about 8 months ago when I switched to Ubuntu after an all-nighter trying to get some piece of software installed on Fedora. I haven’t looked back.

Do you run MythTV?


73 posted on 02/08/2008 2:44:45 PM PST by RBranha
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To: COBOL2Java

XP is the last Microsoft product I buy. Hello Red Hat.


74 posted on 02/08/2008 3:04:30 PM PST by y6162
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To: D-fendr

It’s not hard to gauge $2 billion a month in profit, though...

Complain as we might, Microsoft DOES do some things right - it’s hard to keep setting records in profit quarter-after-quarter for a few decades unless you’re doing something that people want to buy...

DISCLOSURE: I do some part-time (5-10 hours/week) consulting at the Redmond campus, in a technical field. The engineers there are top notch. I often disagree (and verbally so) with management and business direction, but then again they manage to make over $46,000 in profit per minute, so maybe they do know a thing or two about their business and market space.


75 posted on 02/08/2008 3:08:01 PM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation from the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible.)
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To: All

Silly question...... What are the problems with IE7? Was thinking about downloading it.


76 posted on 02/08/2008 3:10:23 PM PST by The Cajun
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To: dan1123

That API mess they have is the curse AND blessing of the company. Consider that nearly all applications written for Windows 3.1 - 15 YEARS OLD - still pretty much run on the OS. Can’t do that with any other OS out there...

The nature of the beast is that backwards compatibility means business application compatibility and developer compatibility. Breaking that eliminates the strongest thing they have going - a stable platform and stable supply of developers.

You can be a developer who stopped learning the Windows API in 1995 and still program effectively for the platform!


77 posted on 02/08/2008 3:11:26 PM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation from the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible.)
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To: Condor51
Vista can run non-certified apps in XP Sp2 mode.
It saved me from having to buy a new version of QuickBooks Pro
78 posted on 02/08/2008 3:15:21 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: PaForBush

Just got a new computer this week — Windows Vista... So far so good. *Crossing fingers* Of course, it’s got upgraded processor, graphics, memory, etc... etc... I wouldn’t even try to run Vista with integrated graphics and hope to get any performance at all.


79 posted on 02/08/2008 3:34:14 PM PST by LibertyRocks ("Islam - The Religion of Pieces" -- quote from LR's "Infidel & Proud" Daughter)
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To: B Knotts
(Newt^H^H^H^HTancredo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFred^H^H^H^HRomney^H^H^H^H^H^HRon Paul '08)

You know, this would be more effective...

Newt^wTancredo^wFred^wRomney^wRon Paul '08

Of course, that assumes you're using a real editor like 'vi'.

;-)

80 posted on 02/08/2008 3:36:48 PM PST by zeugma (McCain, if you want to be sold out for a day on TV.)
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