Save XP…NOT
6 February 2008
by
lolife
Filed under
Computers
All the windows weenies are mad! They don’t like Vista! It’s different and strange and…and…it’s not XP!
So they started a site: Save Windows XP.
Microsoft plans to end most sales of Windows XP on June 30, despite a deep reluctance by many business and individuals about moving to Vista. InfoWorld believes such an expensive, time-consuming shift with problematic benefits should not be forced on Windows users, so we have decided to rally XP users to demand that XP be kept available.
I like to point out at times that Apple successfully went from the Motorola chipset to Intel and from the legacy “classic” Mac OS to the modern, unix-based OS with barely a hiccup. Not only did they not create a cry of whiners like those above, people actually had the reverse reaction: they liked it! The evolution of the Macintosh from a 1980’s toy to a modern computing platform has been managed beautifully. It is now just as common to see scientists, engineers, sysadmins with a Mac as designers and web hackers.
But I digress. Let me clear this up for the folks at InfoWorld: XP was a finely polished turd. Vista is really no worse and probably much better. Leave the past behind, folks. Don’t be scared. Change is good. You can handle it. Really, you can.
Or, if you can’t, you can always move to something better. Like say Linux (ok, Cairnarvon?). Or a Mac.