Not Everyone Loves Vista, XP To Remain Available Until June, 2008

By September 29, 2007

It seems people aren’t taking to Vista as quickly as Microsoft would have liked. The result? XP will remain available through June 30, 2008.

Good news for all the readers who’ve been complaining about the general lack of XP availability. Though we were unable to copies conjure XP out of thin air, it does seem that rumble from the XP faithful is getting louder.
From Ars:

In many ways, the success of Windows XP is also working against Microsoft. At this point, Windows XP SP2 is a very stable OS with known security strengths and weaknesses. In comparison, Vista is still an unknown quantity in some enterprise settings. Windows XP will also run well on older hardware. Myths that Vista needs high-end hardware to run adequately do not help Microsoft’s cause, either.

Microsoft is now saying they were “little ambitious” in giving XP only a year to live.

Amid disappointing Vista uptake, Microsoft relents on XP execution [Ars Technica]
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  1. chili_dog says:
    October 1, 2007 at 4:20 pm

    @trai_dep: @trai_dep: Macs are well and good but I have specific, windows only programs that don;t (read not supported) when run on a mac. And like many I run macs at home and PCs at the office.

  2. mac-phisto says:
    October 1, 2007 at 6:30 pm

    @spinachdip: “You don’t think hackers are targeting OS X? You’d think with people switching from Windows to Macs, there would be an increase in malicious attacks on Macs, right? That just hasn’t happened.”

    virus/no virus, spyware/no spyware, adware/no adware – all i know is that my housemate’s absolutely awesome 9 month old imac is slow as hell now. takes forever to fire up programs (especially firefox, safari, quicktime, itunes), trying to load a movie normally results in the red hand of death, & ad windows will pop up constantly without prompting & even without firefox open. firefox kicks out of session about every 10 minutes or so. real fun stuff.

    now, if this were a pc, i’d know right away what the problem is & how to deal with it. a half day with a few different programs & voila! problem solved. however, this is a mac & as we know, macs don’t have this type of problem. period. kind of makes it hard to fix it.

    i’m sure this is just another one of your red herrings though. my housemate isn’t really having all those problems i mentioned & i’m just making this all up b/c i’m an m$ fanboi. except that i love macs. their interface is cool, the out of the box gfx kick the crap out of most any pc w/ a $500 gfx card & they’re (mostly) easy to use. you’re just an ass if you think you’re immune though.

  3. wezelboy says:
    October 2, 2007 at 12:11 am

    @mac-phisto: You don’t need to be a programmer to use Linux. Maybe you should give Ubuntu a shot.

  4. mac-phisto says:
    October 2, 2007 at 3:08 am

    @wezelboy: i’m replacing my home pc soon (salvaged 8 yr old hp business class – 730 mhz, 256 ram – the one i’m using now actually), so i was thinking of loading ubuntu & setting it up w/ my entertainment center downstairs as a “media desktop”. windows is pretty hosed, so i figured i’d give it a shot. i’m hoping the imac i mentioned above will have a better shot at connecting to the linux for file sharing – it wants nothing to do with the windows machines on the network.

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