No, its not a new spin-off of Chris Rock’s popular sit-com, its the harsh reality of Microsoft’s plight as people more ardently voice their opinion of the new OS from Redmond. In general, people hate it. Microsoft, however, is not being swayed by these outspoken users who are displeased with Windows Vista’s seeming inability to work reliably. This isn’t stopping Galen Gruman, a technology journalist in the Washington D.C. area, from starting a new campaign to push Microsoft into maintaining support for Windows XP until the next version of Windows comes out, sometime in 2010.

My own personal experiences with Vista have been spotty. I currently have Vista Ultimate installed in an 80GB partition on my MacBook Pro, but I rarely use it. Besides, there’s nothing ultimate about it, just one of the many reasons consumers are unhappy with Microsoft. With the Ultimate version, Microsoft promised that there would be loads of exclusive content available for people who opted to pay the premium for the special version. So far, however, Microsoft has mostly failed to deliver anything except a silly card game, the BitLocker security tool which has dubious functionality, and a series of video-based background images which are useless and drain CPU cycles.

It appears that most people simply want to continue using the reliable software they are already familiar with instead of paying Microsoft a tax to upgrade to Vista which seems to be as widely reviled as Windows Me was in 2000.

written by Tyler Regas