I’m sure it will all work out and the amount of problems regarding hardware and software compatibility will drop over time, so for me, perhaps in 2-4 years I can make the move to Vista 64-bit, or the next version of Windows (or I’ll switch to a Mac..). 5 years ago I never would have thought I’d say this, as I like to be on the edge regarding software

That’s actually a good point. I wonder how many people will end up making the jump from XP directly to 64-bit Vista? There are definitely some performance incentives in doing that.

I actually never had any problems with Vista when I was running it, and software compatibility is actually pretty good. I imagine there are probably some special apps you might use that aren’t officially compatible, but all the ones I used were updated within a few months after the Vista launch.

Yeah, a lot of them will work. But you will have many compatibility problems should you move over to Vista 64-bit (more than 4GB of memory would be nice on such an OS, esp. looking toward the future where software will require more and more memory). If you stay with 32-bit, there are still programs not working. One example: Dialog Box Assistant. It does not work properly on Vista and still hasn’t been updated. I can hardly live without it, and having paid for it just before Vista came out, I wouldn’t like to waste that investment either.

I’m sure it will all work out and the amount of problems regarding hardware and software compatibility will drop over time, so for me, perhaps in 2-4 years I can make the move to Vista 64-bit, or the next version of Windows (or I’ll switch to a Mac..). 5 years ago I never would have thought I’d say this, as I like to be on the edge regarding software

I for one, signed the petition. The reason is that I would have to upgrade my system with more RAM and a video card in order to run Vista. Furthermore, many of my applications will also not run with Vista.

I feel very comfortable with Windows XP and would like to keep on using it without spending more money. I think that makes sense. Don’t you think so?

That definitely makes sense to me. I have never recommended that anyone go out and purchase Vista for their machine. Heck, I don’t even recommend that people upgrade an existing machine because of possible hardware incompatibility issues. But when someone is in the market for a new computer I never tell them to go out of their way to get a machine with Vista.

I actually never had any problems with Vista when I was running it, and software compatibility is actually pretty good. I imagine there are probably some special apps you might use that aren’t officially compatible, but all the ones I used were updated within a few months after the Vista launch.

No need to get forced to buy Vista when XP works fine. I have always gone to the next MS OS as soon as it was released (or even before) because it was so much better, but this time it’s different.

I feel very comfortable with Windows XP and would like to keep on using it without spending more money. I think that makes sense. Don’t you think so?

And there are 100 000 000 windows users? So that’s 0,2% of the users . Actually there are almost billion Windowses in the world but of course not so many users…

Of course in the big scheme of things 200,000 users are not that many, but you have to also consider that casual users are unlikely to sign the petition. So the people who have signed likely make up IT departments and are power users who don’t want to switch quite yet.