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Loading ...The ‘Save XP’ campaign officially arrives in Canada
In conjunction with launching our online petition to convince Microsoft to change its Windows XP decision, ComputerWorld Canada has published an in-depth look at the issues behind this story, including an exclusive interview with a Canadian IT manager who isn’t willing to upgrade until at least next year. We’ll continue our coverage as this campaign gains steam.
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February 13th, 2008 at 9:59 am
where i work, we use xp pro in all our panasonic cf30 mdts and most of our pcs. other pcs run windows 2000. we have not & will not be upgrading to vista because the applications we run on the mdts & pcs are not priven to function on vista.
keep xp!!
February 13th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I think it’s unfair for Microsoft to force people to use Vista because they think it’s better. What about all the software that I deal with on a daily basis that tell me they are not yet compatible with Vista. I can’t switch over anything until I receive confirmation as well as time to test Vista with these peices of software. So if Vista is forced on us before these applications become compatible, am I suppose to stop buying PC’s for people and halt any hardware upgrades?
February 13th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
XP had similar problems (though not as pronounced) when it came out. That’s why we started transitioning then to Linux and BSDs. The transition was fairly painless, costs have dropped amazingly and now we are Windows free. Vista may be a major factor in moving more business operations to alternative sofftware solutions.
February 13th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Vista is the Dumb Blonde of operating systems: very pretty, but slow and unreliable.
XP won me over because it was faster, more reliable and more resilient than its predecessor, Windows 2000. It was also compatible, running virtually every application that ran on 2000. What a concept: more real value for me, and compatible with what I was already using. Over the past 5 years, I have upgraded every single one of my clients from Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows 2000 to XP. Not one has had a complaint about either performance or reliability. IT WORKS.
Vista has not proven to me that its either faster, or more reliable, or compatible with what I have now. In fact, quite the contrary: the only clients I have who have bought Vista are suffering from a host of reliability and compatibility problems. ‘nuf said.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:51 am
There is no reason to continue to cling to Microsoft’s Windows monopoly - XP, Vista or otherwise. There are sufficient free operating systems out there to provide an excellent base for any organization to transition away from proprietary software altogether.
Any public institution should certainly investigate ways in which it can get out of the artificial lock-in created by proprietary software vendors. The savings that can be realized by using free and open alternatives can be used to create solutions that meet the specific needs of the organizations that depend on them.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:21 am
I am surprised that a supposedly responsible company like Microsoft, would open itself to possible future law suits or migration to other Operating Systems by forcing the marketplace to migrate to an OS that is not ready.
The cost of re-writing custom applications just within the financial industry, retraining of support personnel, necessary hardware upgrades to meet performance requirements are prohibitive.
There is absolutely no CIO that can justify the migration to Vista, because there is a non existent ROI and the migration cost is in the millions of dollars.
Now is the time, to look at other Operating Systems alternatives, before we are bullied and forced by Microsoft to migrate to Vista, if they no longer support XP.
March 9th, 2008 at 9:42 am
“There is absolutely no CIO that can justify the migration to Vista.”
One justification coming up:
My company consulted for a travel agency needing to migrate from Win9x to something modern in early 2003. I made the mistake of recommending Windows 2000 because, like most of us at the time, I was afraid of product activation on Windows XP. And ITWorld/InfoWorld was backing that fear among others in their reviews:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/10/29/011029tcwinxp.html
As a result, this firm migrated to 2K in mid-2003 on the desktop and to 2K on the servers in early 2005, when NT4 left extended support. Sure, they bought W2K3 Server licenses with the intent to move from NT4 to 2K3 gradually, but they grew too comfortable with 2K.
When March 2007 happened, they were screwed out of needed fixes for the DST changes. The OS was fine but Exchange couldn’t get updated without paying a hefty sum.
The real chiller was a major supplier of theirs “dropped” support for 2K, even during the tail end of its mainstream support phase.
I will not make that mistake again. The next such contract that came up was in January 2007, and I took them straight to Vista Business Edition.
Yes, we had broken apps, and certain vendors hated me for grilling them on Vista support. Too bad for them; they had a year’s warning this was coming. They fixed their stuff or we changed vendors. Yes, we had angry staff. We had training sessions. We do this every time a vendor releases a new product, not just Microsoft.
I pity the CIO that can’t plan and test these things before the fact. This is what you’re paid to do. Come to think of it, who’s your boss, Jose? Maybe I see a new contract coming for me.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Lets put this as simply as I can.
In the 14 months since Vista was foisted upon us, I can count the number of people who have specifically asked for Vista in my busy computer store on TWO (count ‘em, TWO) fingers. Nobody really wants this piece of crap. It doesn’t work well, it requires a humongous upgrade in hardware to even approach the speed of XP (and never equals it).
My one question is “Are Microsoft trying to make Apple succeed?”
April 30th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Vista is garbage. I have used XP Pro for years and home and at work. I just recently changed jobs and this Acer computer has Vista on it.
The machine has guts but Vista jsut slows it down.
I put Office 2007 on here so I could do spreadsheets,documentation etc and I find there as conflicts. Outlook won’t work properly so I am stuck with Vista’s Windows mail which is a total joke for an email program. When you click a email link on a website I get the message the email client is not installed properly. According to the settings it is the default email client and working properly. Well not so. Gates in stupid even considering this move and as WE are the consumer we should have the right to the product that works best for us not what he wants to rake money in off of! SAVE XP
June 24th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Vista….I just gave up and went to Mac. If I need Windows I’ll install XP SP3 on BootCamp.
Now I can have my cake and eat it too, virus free