Test engineers should vote to save Windows XP

If Microsoft doesn't wake-up and smell the coffee on keeping XP viable, we EE's should answer them by embracing Open Source (Linux)in mass protest. No one wants or trusts Vista. Microsoft needs to face the music or else!

I agree Microsoft should keep WinXP alive and supported, without having to subscribe to some sort of update service. We've been forced to upgrade to the next to just get a new bag of bugs. However, if everything you own is on XP, the expense to change to Vista or beyond is prohibitive. Maybe Microsoft wants to lose business, and have everyone get smart and move to Linux!! SURE....

Microsoft, Keep XP alive, you are going to loose a lot of customers

I am agree with the most of comments. I think that it is time to migrate towards an operating system suitable to the industrie applications and developers. Just somethings suitable to work with. Maybe Linux could be a good solution. I am looking forwards to have this kind of "PC-Work Station" for my work.

All Dell computers shipped with a valid MS OS. When you buy a Dell, you are paying for a MS OS as well. All you need for your laptop or any other Dell motherboard based PC is the Dell recovery disc which is easy to find. As long as the recovery disc sees a Dell motherboard it installs the OS without the need for a key (which should have legally been included with your laptop (its bound to the hardware), but sometimes does get lost).

Yes, Microsoft has gone too far. Enough is enough. Right now, I am evaluating switching to Linux on all of our National Instrumets test stations on a go forward basis. Things are looking great for Linux right now. Fast, stable, easy to install and no more expensive, buggy, forced migrations.

Yes, Microsoft has gone too far. Enough is enough. Right now, I am evaluating switching to Linux on all of our National Instrumets test stations on a go forward basis. Things are looking great for Linux right now. Fast, stable, easy to install and no more expensive, buggy, forced migrations.

For a horseshoe lost a kingdom. My company can not change every two years the s.o. and aplications. Our products have a life cycle between ten and fifteen years, we are seriuos with our clients. We are thinking to migrate to Linux.

How very quaint! You want to ask the multiheaded monster which lives on forcing new versions on the marked to please not eat up your favorite version? I believe this displays an almost childlike ignorance of the nature of the beast. You want stable, not force movement? Get Linux. You want Windows convenience? Your soul is already sold.

If you're a software or hardware developer...like me company. You can join one of many Microsoft programs...M-power, MAPS, MSDN... And with that, you get a license for every OS...including DOS or WIN 3.11, if you still need it. Plus severial of there applications too, depending on the program you are in.

I absolutly agree with you, we have hundreds of computers running XP and plan to contiue to use XP for a long time to come. We need to keep a standard OS on each test computer.