It's ' the Methuselah of desktop operating systems': Harry McCracken
(NEWSER) - Despite upgrades like Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft's most popular operating system remains the clunky, security-plagued, 10-year-old Windows XP. But why? "I'm fascinated—and, in a peculiar way, inspired—by XP's astonishing longevity," writes McCracken in Time . Microsoft is mostly at fault, he says, because Vista was glitzy, "had an unfinished feel," and lagged on many computers. Some users simply "went back to XP; many more who never bought Vista in the first place decided not to go there." More»
