Serious question: what is so good about Windows XP that it is worth
petitioning for?
I have used Windows XP in the past, and found it a very frustrating
and insecure operating system. What features does Windows XP have that
users feel are missing from other OS's?
This is not a troll, but a serious question.
This is my observations... just observations, not based on "facts"...
Many many people are dissatisfied with Vista. It failed to live up to
hopes and hype. It will not run well on anything but the latest
hardware. People dislke the rather silly security features of Vista.
People are happy with XP as it is.
Security is generally of little concern to the vast majority of users
that I talk to - the concern for security is usually found amongst those
who are more computer savvy, and those users already know how to either
lock down Windows XP or use an alternative such as Linux.
Windows XP has familiarity. It has been the "only" OS available for a
long long time (8 years is a whole generation of users who only know one
OS), and this has got people used to one way of working... change is not
easy, and Vista or any other OS such as Linux means change. (I say only
because when in the last 20 years have you gone into a consumer
electronics store or a dedicated home computer shop and found anything
but some version of Windows?)
Windows XP has a massive stock of commercial applications that work with
it. Vista cannot lay the same claim as many legacy applications work
poorly or even not at all (look at the large number of people asking for
a version of OpenOffice.org that works in Vista... they've been burnt
before by Vista and now they ask first).
People are not aware that there are other excellent choices such as OSX,
Linux, OpenSolaris, etc etc.
The list goes on and on.
C.
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