On May 30, 6:20 am, "xfile" wrote:
My two cents,

I don't see the needs for customers to sign any petitions. It's the product
provider's job to find out if their product is well accepted by the market
or not. And it's their product so they have every right for making the
decision. If they think Vista is so good, just terminate XP and make
Windows 7 even more like Vista. Of course, it's also them who have to take
the consequences of that decision. Life finds a way, so no need to beg
anyone for keeping a product or not.

"Clear Windows" wrote in message

...

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/0...ng-official-pe...

If you can remember back a few weeks, Steve Ballmer went on record saying
that Microsoft would consider extending the life of Windows XP if enough
people asked for it. Afterall, many people don't want to upgrade to
Windows Vista because they are perfectly content with XP. The problem was
there was no way to ask for it. Sure, you could sign one of the many
online petitions, but Microsoft considers those "non-official complaints"
and the rest of us simply consider them silly.

Well, word has been passed down to the tech support teams (and then on to
Neowin) that they are to begin logging any calls that come in for the sole
purpose of requesting an extension to the retail life of Windows XP. The
calls will be logged and, if enough complaints are filed, Microsoft will
consider giving XP some more time (no pinky promises, though).

If you wish to file an official petition yourself, you can simply call the
Windows XP Home Edition support numbers for your country and let the
operator know that you wish to file an official complaint. Because we're
so nice and want to save you the trouble, here are the numbers for a
majority of Neowin's visitors:

United States: (866) 234-6020
United Kingdom: 0870 60 10 100
Canada: (800) 936-8479

If your country isn't listed, you can visit the Microsoft Support Site,
choose your country, choose Windows XP Home Edition as your product and
then go to 'Contacts' for the appropriate support number.

I disagree with their methodology but will make the call.

Windows XP is fast, RELIABLE, and meets the needs of the vast majority
of PC users


United States: (866) 234-6020
United Kingdom: 0870 60 10 100
Canada: (800) 936-8479

Save Windows XP

David wrote:


Windows XP is fast, RELIABLE, and meets the needs of the vast majority
of PC users

Huh!? XP is klunky and wastes resources. Puppy Linux works better for
most routine tasks.

On Fri, 30 May 2008 06:25:56 -0700, dave wrote:

David wrote:


Windows XP is fast, RELIABLE, and meets the needs of the vast majority
of PC users

Huh!? XP is klunky and wastes resources. Puppy Linux works better for
most routine tasks.

Yes, but Vista takes the cake as the worst piece of crap to come out of
Richmond yet. I'm surprised noone's taken them to court yet for selling a
clearly unfinished product as anything but a beta.

I work with Windows all day. That's why we have a Mac at home.
--
Rene Brehmer
IT Technician

North Hill Inn
http://www.northhillinn.com

"Rene Brehmer" wrote in message
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On Fri, 30 May 2008 06:25:56 -0700, dave wrote:

David wrote:


Windows XP is fast, RELIABLE, and meets the needs of the vast majority
of PC users

Huh!? XP is klunky and wastes resources. Puppy Linux works better for
most routine tasks.

Yes, but Vista takes the cake as the worst piece of crap to come out of
Richmond yet. I'm surprised noone's taken them to court yet for selling a
clearly unfinished product as anything but a beta.

I work with Windows all day. That's why we have a Mac at home.
--
Rene Brehmer
IT Technician

North Hill Inn
http://www.northhillinn.com

That's funny. I have three computers running on Vista utilizing them playing
music, movies, word processing, document saving, and about every application
you can use. No problems here just as long as you really know what you are
doing. Maybe its not the software causing the problem but the user not
knowing how to properly operate the computer.

Billy Smith wrote:
That's funny. I have three computers running on Vista utilizing them
playing music, movies, word processing, document saving, and about every
application you can use. No problems here just as long as you really
know what you are doing. Maybe its not the software causing the problem
but the user not knowing how to properly operate the computer.

Back when I built my first computer, DOS, Windows 3.1. 386-16 16 MB Ram.
It would do a lot of neat things "Just as long as you really knew what
you were doing". Like writing batch files to load and unload conflicting
TSR's from memory etc. Here we are 22 years later, and you still have to
be some kind of "wizard" to keep Windows working.
--
Joe Leikhim K4SAT
"The RFI-EMI-GUY"©

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

"Follow The Money" ;-P

On May 30, 6:56 pm, Rene Brehmer wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 2008 06:25:56 -0700, dave wrote:
David wrote:

Windows XP is fast, RELIABLE, and meets the needs of the vast majority
of PC users

Huh!? XP is klunky and wastes resources. Puppy Linux works better for
most routine tasks.

Yes, but Vista takes the cake as the worst piece of crap to come out of
Richmond yet. I'm surprised noone's taken them to court yet for selling a
clearly unfinished product as anything but a beta.

I work with Windows all day. That's why we have a Mac at home.
--
Rene Brehmer
IT Technician

North Hill Innhttp://www.northhillinn.com

Agree..

Vista Loses almost every performance benchmark,

re Vista:

- Story I heard was

thet the guy at Microsoft in charge of Vista

Said it was ready to ship.

AND THEN he immediately went to Yahoo, with a

Thirty Million Dollar Signing Bonus..

-Windows XP does the job here

and Ubuntu GG is on the other partition

IF Microsoft had a new OS that was worthy of purchase
'd get one

Until then Its XP & Linux

On May 30, 7:08 pm, "Billy Smith"
wrote:
"Rene Brehmer" wrote in message

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On Fri, 30 May 2008 06:25:56 -0700, dave wrote:

David wrote:

Windows XP is fast, RELIABLE, and meets the needs of the vast majority
of PC users

Huh!? XP is klunky and wastes resources. Puppy Linux works better for
most routine tasks.

Yes, but Vista takes the cake as the worst piece of crap to come out of
Richmond yet. I'm surprised noone's taken them to court yet for selling a
clearly unfinished product as anything but a beta.

I work with Windows all day. That's why we have a Mac at home.
--
Rene Brehmer
IT Technician

North Hill Inn
http://www.northhillinn.com

That's funny. I have three computers running on Vista utilizing them playing
music, movies, word processing, document saving, and about every application
you can use. No problems here just as long as you really know what you are
doing. Maybe its not the software causing the problem but the user not
knowing how to properly operate the computer.

Probably get the same performance with Windows XP but with Hundreds
of dollars less hardware

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search


- Or with something FREEEE ! Like Ubuntu

they say in the future, you'll just need a computer and a browser,

meanwhile, theres a petition you can sign,

http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/


It'd be nice to have a reliable, standardized OS available for sale
June 30, 2008

On May 31, 3:52*am, barnegatdx wrote:
On May 30, 7:08 pm, "Billy Smith"
wrote:





"Rene Brehmer" wrote in message

. ..

On Fri, 30 May 2008 06:25:56 -0700, dave wrote:

David wrote:

Windows XP is fast, RELIABLE, and meets the needs of the vast majority
of PC users

Huh!? *XP is klunky and wastes resources. *Puppy Linux works better for
most routine tasks.

Yes, but Vista takes the cake as the worst piece of crap to come out of
Richmond yet. I'm surprised noone's taken them to court yet for selling a
clearly unfinished product as anything but a beta.

I work with Windows all day. That's why we have a Mac at home.
--
Rene Brehmer
IT Technician

North Hill Inn
http://www.northhillinn.com

That's funny. I have three computers running on Vista utilizing them playing
music, movies, word processing, document saving, and about every application
you can use. No problems here just as long as you really know what you are
doing. Maybe its not the software causing the problem but the user not
knowing how to properly operate the computer.

Probably get the same performance with Windows XP *but with *Hundreds
of dollars less hardware

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

- Or with something FREEEE ! Like Ubuntu

they say in the future, you'll just need a computer and a browser,

meanwhile, theres a petition you can sign,

http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

It'd be nice to have a reliable, standardized OS available for sale
June 30, 2008- Hide quoted text -

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Wal*Mart is still selling some Dell Computers
with XP installed as the OS.

Rene Brehmer wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 2008 06:25:56 -0700, dave wrote:

David wrote:

Windows XP is fast, RELIABLE, and meets the needs of the vast majority
of PC users

Huh!? XP is klunky and wastes resources. Puppy Linux works better for
most routine tasks.

Yes, but Vista takes the cake as the worst piece of crap to come out of
Richmond yet. I'm surprised noone's taken them to court yet for selling a
clearly unfinished product as anything but a beta.

I work with Windows all day. That's why we have a Mac at home.
Redmond?

Billy Smith wrote:

"Rene Brehmer" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 30 May 2008 06:25:56 -0700, dave wrote:

David wrote:


Windows XP is fast, RELIABLE, and meets the needs of the vast majority
of PC users

Huh!? XP is klunky and wastes resources. Puppy Linux works better for
most routine tasks.

Yes, but Vista takes the cake as the worst piece of crap to come out of
Richmond yet. I'm surprised noone's taken them to court yet for selling a
clearly unfinished product as anything but a beta.

I work with Windows all day. That's why we have a Mac at home.
--
Rene Brehmer
IT Technician

North Hill Inn
http://www.northhillinn.com

That's funny. I have three computers running on Vista utilizing them
playing music, movies, word processing, document saving, and about every
application you can use. No problems here just as long as you really
know what you are doing. Maybe its not the software causing the problem
but the user not knowing how to properly operate the computer.

I'm running a 1.5 gHz Via C7D WalMart box that cost $200. It does all
of the above and I have no idea what I'm doing.

www.ubuntu.com