Vista is Slower, But XP Is Still Dying

An anonymous reader writes "Though the Redmond software giant may be extending the lifetime of XP on low-end laptops, the end is nigh for the aging OS. That extension makes perfect sense, as recent studies have shown XP is far faster than Vista across a number of platforms. Still, Microsoft is 'sticking to its guns' when it comes to drop-dates for most other uses of the XP operating system. 'There are several dates that apply, but the one you're probably thinking of is the June 30 deadline that Dix referred to. That's the last day when large computer makers -- the Dells, HPs and Lenovos of the world -- will be allowed to preinstall Windows XP on new PCs. It also marks the official end of XP as a retail product.'"

Comments

Irrelevant

[tnmc]

Who cares when M$ stops selling XP, the only truly important date is when the last bugfix for XP is released.

What you're saying is...

[symbolset]

"LALALALALA I can't hear you!"

Not real persuasive. Not going to work any more.

Microsoft dictates what people get and that's that

[Locutus]

not matter how bad it is or how many company's software won't work in it, Microsoft is the decider. They want you to use Vista and you will use Vista one way or another. SURPRISE!

BTW, because Microsoft has VERY lucrative contracts with PC OEMs, they have little to no choice in what PC operating system gets pre-loaded on the computers. If they were to stick Linux on any of those computers, some part of those deals would be rescinded and the OEM would lose money one way or another. It is what it is so if you play in the Windows game, you're stuck playing by their rules and Vista is what they want you to use.

this is the way it is and no dumb-ass petition to save XP is going to change that. The only way to change that is to do something which changes Microsofts control on the market and that means using someone elses operating system or at the very least, start moving off of all other Microsoft software on their operating system ASAP. IMO.

LoB

Re:XP won't die

[bob shade]

At what point does XP become abandonware and free to share your copy with others?
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Re:History repeats itself...

[Butisol]

Vista is the new Windows ME. It can't be compared to XP in the way you are attempting. Windows Vista really is a piece of crap, so stop trotting out the same old argument. It's boring.

Microsoft == Stupid

[Nom du Keyboard]

Microsoft is stupid again, and clearly doesn't care about what its customers really want. Vista has failed to sell itself as superior to XP, so let's kill off XP and remove that choice entirely. It's unfortunate that Microsoft won't pay the price that most businesses pay for such bonehead decisions of giving a general "Up Yours" to their customers, who are clearly too stupid (in Microsoft's mind) to know what's really good for them!

I'm starting to like you...

[symbolset]

At least you're thinking. That beats hell out of the other astroturfers here. You must be a girl. You're still too late. This thread is lost to you.

You say gaming will catch up; so your solution doesn't work now, but somewhere in some possible future? You say that eventually people will move to standardized file formats, sometime in this glorious future.

What is the current level of technology is a very fungible thing. Does Linux run the UT2k4 native client well? Why yes, it does. Does it run FEAR well? Well, no, but there isn't a platform that does. Is there a middle ground? Yes, but it's moving so fast that my post may be obsolete before your reply.

Do I know what everything that runs under Wine? No.

I still don't understand why you bothered bringing IBM into this to explain why you suggested that instead of giving money to one evil corporation, that getting a PS3 and thus giving money to another evil corporation is better? You're acting like you've got scruples, but it seems they're just blinders. Do you so intensely hate Microsoft that you're willing to allow wrongs done by another corporation corporation slide unnoticed? Once again, a compromise I'm not willing to make for another non-solution.

Your "partner" Sony is not going to be happy to hear you bashing them in this way. The IBM thing is obvious to people who have a longer view than you -- they once owned the market and shared your hubris. They needed to be stripped of control to become helpful to Progress. They were and I was really happy about that although it seems we've traded one tyrant for another. Breaking that cycle would really be nice.

Progress is to the benefit of us all. Proprietary solutions do not promote progress. They promote profits. Profits and progress are not exclusive goals unless you make them so by making your inventions proprietary. In that case your inventions are not progress. They are only distractions from it.

So cut it out, will you?

Not gonna happen.

Thanks for posting in my thread

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I want to thank you guys for posting in my thread. It took a lot of persistent reloading of the slashdot page to get my post in first.

You've done a lot toward making people aware of how hopeless Vista is, and how useless are the arguments against Linux, and how Linux is a reasonable answer to all of the issues that might arise with migrating from XP.

By now you have all figured out you've been used. The point of this exercise was to get a lot of +5 informative and +5 insightful posts that will show up in Google.

I'd like to thank you all for playing.

Those of you with your opposing viewpoints? Well, what can I say? The premise of your plan is that your opposition is neither organized nor intelligent. You might want to rethink that.