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Loading ...Why we launched SaveXP.ca
In order to provide some additional background on this campaign and why we think it’s important to ComputerWorld Canada, I’ve written a fairly detailed explanation on my regular blog, Shane Schick’s ComputerWorld. Consider it your FAQ for the SaveXP.ca effort.
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February 19th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
As someone who is ‘has been’ in this business since 1990 as a tech support on Compuserve for Delrina Technologies ( remember the old days when the latest fab technology was the ability to fax from Windows), it never ceases to amaze me how MS manages to pull another OS that is quite unstable.
One component is consistent since the 90’s: Power and ownership of the OEM market leads to monopoly of the PC OS (Operating System) no matter how flagrently unstable the OS is. I look back remembering my days in ’supporting’ Win 3.0 and just begin to wonder that nothing has changed.
I refuse to upgrade to Vista for obvious reasons - the lack of stability (see the PcWorld stress testing), the lack of ownership/committment of the vendor product & release (i.e MSDN membership with no access to SP.1) and the blatent attitude that all can affort to upgrade to the next generation of software: MS SQL Server 2008, .NET 200x etc.
I’m not rolling in cash to support a blatant attempt by MS to upgrade: as I stated before since my tech support 90’s days at Delrina - nothing has changed.
rgd. J. Wittek
March 5th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
IL donate money if you sue MS for ending xp’s life. thx
March 5th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Il donate money for you to sue MS for ending XP’s life
March 6th, 2008 at 9:52 am
“Attach an unprotected Windows [XP] PC to the internet, and almost before you can blink, it can be recruited into one of the armies of “zombies” that wreak havoc on the internet, launching DoS attacks and other mischief.”
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“…if Microsoft is serious about making Windows secure by default, it should take a more hardline stance. In Mac OS X, for example, running with permanent admin privileges isn’t even an option.” (Vista UAC, anyone?) — Computerworld New Zealand, October 2004
“Mr. Mossberg calls the new OS the best Microsoft operating system yet, but he spends a good portion of the review criticizing and slamming many of the lamer aspects of the new OS.” — Bryan Chaffin, MacObserver, September 2001
“Windows XP has been criticized for its susceptibility to malware, viruses, trojan horses, and worms. Security issues are compounded by the fact that users of the Home edition, by default, receive an administrator account that provides unrestricted access to the underpinnings of the system.” — Wikipedia article on Windows XP
This is just from a cursory Google search. Just wait until I start parodying your campaign in an effort to save Windows 2000!
March 8th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Time to fight fear with humour! save2000.ca now!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Leo, you don’t have to donate money for the legal battle. But you could join a Canadian class action lawsuit to get restitution for people who bought “Vista Capable” machines loaded with XP, only to discover that a Vista upgrade was more of a downgrade - if their machines could even run it. If you’re interested: http://www.stevensonlaw.net