Re: Users Fight to Save Windows XP ... Me? No thanks ...

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On Apr 15, 10:19 pm, "Bill in Co." <not_really_h...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Colin Barnhorst wrote:
Regardless, the decision is based on long-standing policy and input from
the
user base, not sales.

By policy, a Windows operating system is withdrawn from sale a year after
it
has been superceded, mainstream support ends two years after supercession,
and extended support five years after that. This is all scheduled by
policy
and not based on sales.

MS does extend the dates on occasion, as they did with Win98 (extended
support was extended two years) and the retail sales of XP (the original
date was Jan 30 of this year) in response to the user base (which usually
means enterprise users, not consumers).

Another case of that is the extension for two more years of the
availablility of XP Home OEM copies for manufacturers of the so-called
ultra
low cost computers.

MS states that they have passed the 100 million mark in Vista sales. The
picture is better than the Vista nay-sayers would like you to believe.

But how many really had a choice? (you know what I mean, in the broader
context)

"riffin-rich" <rseifert...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:c31eb586-e3c4-4fe3-b4c9-8f1c43a5a40c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Colin, your reply was informative; I apparently lacked some facts, so
I kindly thank you for your clarification. It is still disappointing
that Microsoft, whose Vista sales are sagging below expectations for
obvious reasons, has decided to withdraw the XP OS to help generate
its Vista revenues.

On Apr 15, 7:08 pm, "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
MS has not decided to retire XP. They have only scheduled when XP will
be
withdrawn from retail sales and preinstallation on new computers. XP
continues in mainstream support until April 2009 and extended support
until
April 2014. "Retirement" in the MS docs and announcements means the end
of
support for a product.

"riffin-rich" <rseifert...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Not sure if you all have heard or not ... but M$ has decided to retire
Windows XP ... to force its entire user base to switch to Vista:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080414/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_save_xp

"Users Fight to Save Windows XP" ... And me? No thanks ... I will
make no time for petitions, blogs, or otherwise beyond this initial e-
mail because saving Windows XP is simply not worth my time or
effort ... I will simply walk away and be done with Microsoft forever!

Sure I like Windows XP Pro because it's stable ... it works well ...
and it's an industry standard around the world ... but it, like all
other M$ products, it lacks ingenuity ... and unless you've
familiarized yourself with a Mac, you have no idea of what I'm talking
about. But don't worry ... I am a Mac convert ... I'm not a fanatical
Mac propaganda machine. Enough about Mac superiority (yes ... the
commercials are not only funny, but they're realistic).

For those of you still reading, I bought my first Intel-based Mac a
year ago and I love it! I run Windows XP as a virtual machine inside
of Mac OS X (Leopard). And just 4 hours ago, I purchased another GB
of memory for each of my two PC's; my plan was to run Linux as the
host OS on them, and VMWare to run virtual machines of Windows XP
within them. This announcement may render my plan a "temporary"
exercise in futility.

HEY MICROSOFT! I WILL NOT SWITCH (OR DOWNGRADE) TO VISTA ... and if
you quit supporting XP, then I'll remove my virtual XP machines and
make the conversion to the Mac platform across the board, except for
my Linux intrusion detection systems, servers, etc.. Yeah, I am alone
as I type this e-mail, but I can assure you that "I" will become
"we" ... and "we" will become "most" ... and hopefully "most" will
become "all" ... so go ahead and quit supporting XP ... you'll finally
motivate me/us to say goodbye forever!

P.S. I have a friend that's been running his same Mac for 8 years
now! And he just put the newest operating system (Leopard) on it.
Here's a challenge for you: try installing any MS operating system on
your 8 year old hardware.

Later ...
Rich

I agree with you, Bill: "But how many had a choice?"
Every new PC ships with Vista.
.

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