RadioBanter - View Single Post - Microsoft Taking Official Petitions to Keep XP Alive

Billy Smith

"Adam Albright" wrote in message
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On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:48:53 -0700, Frank wrote:

wrote:
On Jun 2, 11:42 am, RHF wrote:

D'Oh ! - The Future of Windows XP -according-to- Microsoft
Corp.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...xp/future.mspx

Windows XP will be Gone in June 2008 ? - NOT !

MS Says - Windows XP Sales will Stop on 30 June 2008.

Note - Some Existing 'new' Old-Stock of Windows XP presently
in Retailers Inventory may be available until 2009 or longer.

MS Says - Technical Support [Service Pack Downloads] for
Window XP will be provided by Microsoft Corp until 2014.

OK - What is the Problem ?

Yeah -if- You buy a New Computer you will likely get stuck
with have Micorsoft's VISTA pre-installed -but- your Old PC
that is running Windows XP will have support for Five (5)
more years.

Hopefully within those Five (5) Years Microsoft will have
something better than VISTA as their latest super-dupper
OS : Plus you will have a lot of new Hardware to Want-to-Buy.

-ps- Five (5) Years is almost Two (2) Life Cycles in the ever
changing Softwave-and-Hardware Turn-Over-and-Upgrade
PC Users Dilemma.

and . . . that's the way i see it ~ RHF
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On May 30, 5:07 am, David wrote:

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

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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

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- But the problem is that whatever Microsoft comes up with to replace
Vista will be the same resource Hog Vista is now;
- with no substantial gain.

And you know this because...?

- Imagine how nice it would be to have a REALLY fast, reliable PC that
ran on Some Future Iteration of hardware

I've got multiple installs of that OS right now...it's called Vista!

- but had Reliable, Familiar Windows XP as its OS

Why? Once you become familiar with Vista, then XP seems old, slow and
clunky...just W2K did after we became familiar with XP.

- tapping into whatever faster Internet / server farm is standard
down teh road.

????????????????????????

Worth Saving Windows XP, in the opinion of over 200,000

Yeah right. You don't think for one second that 200,000 individuals
responded do you?
If so, lets talk about some very fine bridges I happens to know of that
are for sale...LOL!
Also blogs are now becoming click-and-I-get-cash cows. Any resemblance
to a real e-rag news outlet is delusional at best.
Frank

Frank knows all about delusional. It's his life.

Sure you do, Madeline