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Save Windows 2000! (Parody of InfoWorld's Save XP)
Microsoft will end extended support for Windows 2000 on June 30, 2010, forcing users to shift to XP. Don't let that happen!
Show your support for Microsoft's most successful failure! Windows 2000 was the first Windows desktop operating system to include real security and real functionality in one package. And since the dreaded Code Red worm, Windows 2000 did not have a catastrophic security flaw that could not be attributed to apathetic system administrators or lazy non-Microsoft software designers. If Windows XP deserves such attention to save it from certain obsolescence, why not Windows 2000? For that matter, why not Windows 3.1? Show your support for obsolete systems and your fear of change today! OK, seriously. This is demonstration of how absurd InfoWorld's campaign is. Drop an e-mail off at consulting@pan-am.ca with links to encouraging Windows 2000 articles, especially ones from InfoWorld or any of their affiliates. Link to www.save2000.ca in your responses to InfoWorld's blog posts. Or do both. Or do more! And above all, fight fearmongering with humour! The best and funniest efforts will appear on this page, with attribution and links if you wish. "Windows 2000 has been an extraordinarily successful operating system," said Steve O'Halloran, the managing director of AssetMetrix Research Labs, the arm of the Ottawa-based firm that analyzed the data collected from more than 150,000 PCs in 250 companies. Somehow Microsoft managed to not only recover from [the Code Red] disaster but also to turn security into one of their greater assets. It turns out, then, that Windows 2000 was their most successful failure so far. Microsoft's Windows 2000 client operating system is doing well for its age[...]. Forty eight percent of PCs are still running Windows 2000 five years after it was launched and just weeks before Microsoft takes its first steps towards end-of-lifeing the operating system by finishing full-fledged support and maintenance. Microsoft's own push toward the next generation might harm the one at hand. [...] Companies may choose to wait for Longhorn [Now Vista], upgrade everything together, and never buy a copy of XP. More from InfoWorld's Canadian Affiliate (Free registration required) Attach an unprotected Windows [XP] PC to the internet, and almost before you can blink, it can be recruited into one of the armies of "zombies" that wreak havoc on the internet, launching DoS attacks and other mischief. More from InfoWorld's New Zealand affiliate Mr. Mossberg [of the Wall Street Journal] calls [Windows XP] the best Microsoft operating system yet, but he spends a good portion of the review criticizing and slamming many of the lamer aspects of the new OS.
s/world/operating system More from I Can Has Cheezburger
InfoWorld is slow on the uptake. Rick Mercer's by far the earliest supporter of their so-called campaign. Our tests of the multitasking capabilities of Windows XP and Windows 2000 demonstrated that under the same heavy load on identical hardware, Windows 2000 significantly outperformed Windows XP. In the most extreme scenario, our Windows XP system took nearly twice as long to complete a workload as did the Windows 2000 client. More from InfoWorld (keep it coming, mates!)
It is sad to note that what is otherwise a well-regarded tech journal is increasingly sounding like the MAD magazine of tech journalism on this topic. An enterprise customer merely has to say, "We're going to Vista -- and any software vendor that doesn't support Vista will be dropped from our company." Watch and see how fast everything will start to work with Vista.
Might even be higher numbers... except our Symantec content filter sees the [Save XP] website as a spam source and I can't sign the petition from work. Now I have to remember to waste my personal time instead of my work time. Good job, InfoWorld fans, for bringing your own campaign down. I couldn't have done a better job myself. |
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