Gamernode: News - Save XP petition supporters ask for more signatures

see i have never understood what was 'wrong' with vista. i was an avid xp user that transitioned quite easily to vista over a year ago with no problems. i hear lots of compatibility gripes but that can be fixed with a simple patch available from the developer. some say vista is a system resource hog but it has always run fine on my computer and there are plenty of options to turn down the pretty aero transparencies and even make it look and run just like xp

I agree with Falchion. I don't see what the problem is with vista, I don't currently use it but thats because I don't have a PC good enough to run games on it etc. Why anyone should complain about it not being shipped with new systems is just stupid, its not like anyone cared when they took away Windows 98 support. If someone could explain to me the issues with Vista then sure, I'll look into it but currently I don't see the problem.

theres no need for it: winxp is a perfectly good operating system that will do anything you could need it for: it could run dx10 if microsoft wanted fine. However, ms feel the need to produce a new product, to sell more licences, to make more money, which is needless.

It's not needless from an economical/technological standpoint. Imagine if no one made new products. If no new products were made. If microsoft doesn't make more money then that's bad news for everyone, not just m$. Read "Atlas Shrugged", Ayn Rand describes that would pretty well.

Back on subject, Vista is a lot better than everyone who doesn't use it with an open mind thinks. If it won't run on your machine, fine, either upgrade it or stop whining.

sorry, I'm done now.

Exactly my point alex. I'm going to get it when I get a new PC because tbh it's a great OS. A lot of my friends (who don't really know much about computers anyway) complained about Vista because they had all heard bad stuff about if from wherever. When they got new PC's with it on, they all agreed that it was better than vista, and these are the kind of people who have enough trouble installing a game!

I had a 5 year old computer that when Vista came out I tested it and it ran extremely poor. It was a AM Athlon XP 2100 ~1.7gig processor and 1024mb of RAM; when running video games or anything it was bad, it kept giving me disk errors. I was able to get a loan and buy a new computer and now I'm runing an AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core ~2.8gig Processor and 2gigs of Memory and my PC is running awesome; course it uses 800mb on desktop idle so I need more memory hehe. So I dont see any other defaults that much.

As far as saving XP, I dont think so. How long has XP been out? That gave consumers plenty of time to get a licensed copy to keep it for their home; I still own it. In fact i have dual boot which allows me to have XP on one hard drive and then Vista on another hard drive.

Vista has been out for over a year (end of Jan 2007) and they stated in February that XP support is gonna drop off soon; make way for the new product (way I look at it)

In fact as we speak they are already working on a new Operating System, one that will replace Vista; and its scheduled for release in 2010 (possibly lol)

I have the Windows 98 SE CD still too

I tried Windows ME (Millenium)

However obviously of those 3; yes XP was the stable OS

I really enjoy Windows Vista because if your get a BSOD or if something fails, a lot of the times Vista can give you a solution right away rather than looking it up yourself and most will fix the problem

I don't get the problem with Vista. Transferring from XP to Vista was one of the smoothest OS switches I've ever experienced.

I heard tons of horror stories about Vista, but jambo convinced me to just suck it up and get it when I get my new computer in a bit. There's something about the Australian accent that makes me trust him.

Vista was designed with newer pc's in mind. That is why people with older pc's think it is a resource hog and makes their systems run slow. And about the patches, if you had xp when it first came out, you would remember patching it every other week for a while, too. Security wise, vista kills xp. The only problem I see with converting is for businesses. They may have to upgrade all their pcs. Have a tech guy come in and make sure all the software they have is compatible, and maybe tweek their network. From what I've gathered, we're all tech guys in at least a minor way here at the Node and can fix these tiny problems ourselves. I just don't see any problem.

And Alex6969, that was a great book. Remove all the movers and shakers, indeed. You would not want that.

Thank the gods... Unfortuneately, it's too late for me... My practically new XP computer died some time ago, and now I have this pile of crap Vista one... Which is new, but reminds me so much of my 6 year old (working) XP computer, that I find myself using it more.

You know, I never thought the depth of my hatred for MS could deepen. But, oh has it...

*signs petition*

Oblivian Lotus, there is a way around that (don't know why you would want to do it). Get some dvds (if your computer is new, pretty sure it has a dvd rw drive) burn the files you want to dvd, low level format your hard drive, install xp from your old xp disk (you should have one). I would not do it, but hey, to each his own.

OK when will people learn that petitions and protests don't work with companies. Now it MAY once in a GREAT while, but it's usually a mistake on the companies part

I love XP to death. I had it with SP3 RC1 before I got Vista and it was pure win. XP is coming up on 7 years old and I'm ready for the next thing. Vista in its current state is a lot better than XP was when it was only a year old. The public has a very short memory, and cannot remember how unsecure XP was, and at the time when 98 and 2000 were the dominate platforms, XP came out and introduced a totally new interface that many people hated. Now it is the norm. Right now I don't use XP on my main machine, I see no need to. Vista runs everything just fine, and the feature list outweighs the few programs that don't run. With every release that Microsoft has made I have been very impressed, I have a copy of every Windows (except 3.1 and 3.11 for Networking :)). They are all very good platforms, but the newest one is always the best. (except ME, everyone makes mistakes).

Well said, Alex6969.

Perhaps its not that anything is wrong with Vista, but that there isn't anything wrong with XP. I'm not about to shell out $150+ dollars for an OS that *might* not work as well as the one I have already. That's just common sense. I'm sure there's hundreds, if not thousands, of PC users out there in the same boat as me. It's like trading in something that works almost perfectly, for something still rather broken that *might* work almost perfectly....in a year or two. Early adoption be damned. You have the newest OS on the block, but it works half as well as the previous one and by the time it's actually working properly, the price has dropped so much that you've overpaid by hundreds.

I see no need to upgrade my OS until I happen to buy a new PC that just happens to have it. Anything else is just silly.