Wednesday, February 6th 2008
Petition Started to Extend Windows XP Life; 75,000 Sign in Three Weeks
Infoworld started a Save XP petition on their website. The main goal of this petition is to get Microsoft to continue handing out Windows XP licenses beyond the June 30 deadline Microsoft put out. Fortunately for Windows XP diehards everywhere, an astounding 75,000 people have signed this petition so far. Infoworld plans on presenting this petition to Microsoft when they reach 100,000 signatures. If you have not already done so, I suggest you sign the petition if you feel that Windows XP should be around a little longer than June 30, 2008.
Source:
Infoworld
72 Comments on Petition Started to Extend Windows XP Life; 75,000 Sign in Three Weeks
I wonder if there was a petition to save win98 when xp came out?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000
thats not the best but it shows that server supports 8way smp, i will look for more later i gotta go to doc appt.
asto the ms dosnt listen
www.pcworld.com/article/id,114280-page,1/article.html ms did listen, they didnt want to piss people off to much :)
2k HATES hyper threding, because it sees the 2nd virtual core as a real one and tryes to run apps on it just like it was a real core(Doh!!!)
i had 2k on this box for a few days, just to test if WileE's statment to me that 2k didnt like x2/dual core chips was true, it wasnt, some of the apps didnt like it till i installed the dual core driver/optimizer, but thats true with xp/2k3/x64 and even vista. you mean like your posting here trying to get people to not spend 30sec signing this and insted just use vista?
bye bye, you=fail at this GL next time :)
That being said, if you want to sign ... go for it.
Oh, and... Signed!
why do people keep posting who just want to say "xp sucks im not signing this" if you dont think its worth while STFU and dont waist your time and our time by posting inane bullshit like "xp is old, vista is new, vista rawks im not signing this"
oh and to the guy who thinks they gotta spend alot of time supporting XP if they keep it out, not really they just gotta keep making disks and putting out the same updates they would already be making for the extended support period(even after EOL ms gives like 1-3 years of downloadable updates, same as you can still use ms update with windows 2000.
everybody just wants the option to buy xp or use it supported with patches if they dont like vista, just as you vista fans want the right to use vista and think its the best os ever made period(eww)
xp x64(server 2003 x64 in pro mode) has support for a good bit longer, but xp 32 isnt even gonna see an sp3 at this rate, dispite MS saying there would def be an sp3.......funny about that, they said the same thing about an sp5 for 2000 then all we got was a "roll up" pack that was missing stuff :/