Sounds like they needed a face-saving way of keeping XP on sale.
Microsoft Taking Official Petitions to Keep XP Alive
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. After all, 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.
► United States: (866) 234-6020
► United Kingdom: 0870 60 10 100
► Canada: (800) 936-8479
Vista:
I want to revive Commodore 64… where do I sign a petition for that?
>>I want to revive Commodore 64…
Well, the Commodore 64 was superseded by something better, Jäg. That would distinguish it from XP, which is still the primo Windoze platform.
lol.. thats what microsoft gets for building an
new O/S that the Hollywood and the Record Industry helped design..
idiots.
-soundwash
#4 – Mister Mustard
I know… But I still love that computer. It was amazing how much the programmers squeezed out of the hardware on that machine.
#5 – soundwash
“Microsoft gets”… well, they’re the ones who continue to make money on selling Windows XP.
In Microsoft’s best interest they should just continue to sell it without there having to be a petition. They should realize by now that people still want it and they can still make a profit. Isn’t making a profit what Microsoft is all about in the first place?
It is hard to find XP in a store. I wanted to run it under VMware Fusion on my Apple and all I can find is that Vista shit.
Ok so according to Microsoft’s website the current plan is stop selling XP on June 30th(this includes sells to PC vendors such as Dell, etc.). Well here is my question. I work for an electronics manufacturing company that builds ATMs and Self Checkouts that both run XP. What is going to happen to them? Are future ATMs going to start running Vista?
#8 – Mister Ketchup – It is hard to find XP in a store.
Staples has it. They don’t list it on their website, but they sell XP Professional as well… or at least did when I bought mine two months ago (in store).
#9 – Daniel N. – Are future ATMs going to start running Vista?
Perhaps time to switch to Linux?
>>It was amazing how much the programmers
>>squeezed out of the hardware on that machine.
That’s because the bloatware programmers at Microsoft didn’t have anything to do with it.
#12 – Mister Mustard
LOL – . Most programmers nowadays don’t “have/want/need to” optimize their code. The hardware cover their incompetence.
#4 – Following that logic, we should all go back to Windows 2000 and force people to drop 9x-dependent applications.
>>Following that logic, we should all go
>>back to Windows 2000
wtf? Are you taking logic classes from Bobbo? What does my comment about the Commodore 64 have to do with this??
I don’t get it. Why are people so adamant about Microsoft extending sales of XP? If they really want it, why don’t they go out and buy it now?
>>If they really want it, why don’t they go
>>out and buy it now?
Most people don’t “go out and buy” and OS. They get it on a new computer, then stick with it until the next computer (unless MSFT pulls some monkey business and forces an upgrade).
People (and businesses) want to be able to buy new computers that run XP, not a bloated POS like Vista.
Steve Ballmer is talking rubbish – If you want XP you can’t buy it!
I tried to get it on the new HP laptop I went for – they wouldn’t do it. Vista only.
So guess what – it’s now running Ubuntu 🙂
Ok,
I dont mind the OS Im running as long as it DOES what I want it to do.
I dont mind upgrading to something BETTER.
Win2000, XP and vista…I am told use the SAME core. But its not fully compatible with each other?
IF MS made something BETTER, it would be fine.
But, they keep ADDING CRAP to the background, and security AGAINST the user.
If they would fall back to the OLD programming standards, and LOCK UP the OS..I would love it.
# 9 Daniel N. said,
“I work for an electronics manufacturing company that builds ATMs and Self Checkouts that both run XP. What is going to happen to them? Are future ATMs going to start running Vista?”
Windows XP will continue to be sold to OEM’s and system builders until Jan 2009.
See: http://tinyurl.com/v77f
Many of the smaller application products like ATM’s and Point of Sales Terminals use Windows XP Embedded which does not have an end of life date yet. These devices often are low power fan-less computers that would not work well with the higher CPU requirements that Vista has.
#20 Steve S said,
“Many of the smaller application products like ATM’s and Point of Sales Terminals use Windows XP Embedded which does not have an end of life date yet. These devices often are low power fan-less computers that would not work well with the higher CPU requirements that Vista has.”
Thanks for clearing this up for me. I actually work as an engineer for a Sun Microsystems product so I don’t know all the details for those products. I will talk to the engineer tomorrow over the Point of Services machines and ask her if she has heard anything about the future of XP on them.
Bah, let Microsoft go down the tubes with Vista. Why help a company that has dedicated its life to destroying open standards. If Microsoft made PC’s, every model would have proprietary ports on the back that change constantly.