Spacehamster’s Blog

Its been a little over a year since Vista was released. I must admit, the feedback from the new OS hasn’t been totally negative. It seems adequate as an Development platform - .NET developers don’t seem to have too many problems with it. The real complaints seem to come from Tech-savvy users and a smattering of avid PC Gamers. I haven’t dared upgrade to Vista myself yet, purely because I’m not sure what the impact will be. I use my WinXP to watch a lot of DVD’s and play games. Neither which I’m sure Vista can do properly yet.

So this petition doesn’t bode well.

Fans of the six-year-old operating system set to be pulled off store shelves in June have papered the Internet with blog posts, cartoons and petitions recently. They trumpet its superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft’s latest PC operating system, whose consumer launch last January was greeted with lukewarm reviews.

No matter how hard Microsoft works to persuade people to embrace Vista, some just can’t be wowed. They complain about Vista’s hefty hardware requirements, its less-than-peppy performance, occasional incompatibility with other programs and devices and frequent, irritating security pop-up windows.

For them, the impending disappearance of XP computers from retailers, and the phased withdrawal of technical support in coming years, is causing a minor panic.

There’s a good and bad side to this. The bad side is that there still opposition to Vista, which worries me a little. The good side is that WinXP must’ve been a lot better developed and designed OS than Mac and Linux supporters believe in order for a petition to be produced in the first place. Go figure.