Mr. Softy Gets No Satisfaction
Not only is Yahoo spurning $44.6 billion advance, numerous
user groups are calling for the extended support of Windows XP. Support for Windows XP is to end the end of June and no one is celebrating the rise of Windows Vista. In this house we fought Vista on one gaming machine and it is still there. On my RAID multimedia storage and delivery machine however, we eventually gave up on it and I blew it out (DOS ’fdisk’) and re-installed XP. Vista wasn’t worth the incompatibilities and doggin’ in that case. For the gaming machine, we just threw a little more hardware at it and it is tolerable. But I bet you didn’t try OS/2 Warp! A friend of mine still has the ‘t-shirt’ for that adventure
I think back to those days and wonder at how far we’ve come with this stuff. Microsoft almost gets it now …
February 26th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
[…] I will add to the debate in that the ‘bloatware’ of Windows XP looks slim compared to Windows Vista and to be honest the functionality isn’t substantially improved while the compatibility is unacceptably degraded. Windows XP should be kept alive until PC’s like the ASUS EEE PC can easily handle it. The fact that Vista, even with the most recent hardware advances, is keeping laptops from evolving into something truly mobile is telling. If the Linux Software that came with this system was more useable, this system could have been the window for Linux to go main stream due to its adaptation and the demographic of those buying it. I put XP on it, however, and it runs famously, better than laptops that came out when XP originally did … that’s progress. So far, Vista isn’t. […]