2008/6/10 ccornell - OpenOffice.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 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. >
I see. This is how I summerize: 1) Dissatisfaction with the successor of XP 2) Unfamiliarity with anything else 3) Inability of legacy programs to run on other OSes (including the successor to XP) I understand then that there is no 'killer feature' in Windows XP that people need other than the ability to run legacy software. I thought that maybe the OS itself had some feature that was desirable. Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
