Microsoft really has a way to create a loud noise each time they launch new products. But when they are about to pull out a product in the market, the noise becomes louder. And this time, it is the consumers who are creating the sound.

The latest brouhaha is about the phasing out of the famous Microsoft operating system from the market, the Windows XP. I don’t know about you, but I was like oh, no. Please don’t force me to use Vista.

I can still remember the time when I was so used with Windows 98. Everything seemed easy and not complicated for a non-computer geek like me. Many OS have been introduced after but I did not change mine.

It’s not until my old PC became irreparable that I had to buy a new one. And to my surprise, everything in the market came with a pre-installed Windows XP. I loathe the day that I had to learn everything from scratch.

The wiz in me came back into being a student. But I had no choice. I don’t want to change into Mac. If changing OS with Windows is like going to another country, changing to Mac would be like going to another planet.

Well, that’s only for me. I am conventional. I prefer the common postcard design as a marketing tool than a 3D billboard. And it took me ages to adapt to my Windows XP just to be told that now I have to let go of it soon and face another tune.

Microsoft will stop selling the XP OS. They will also stop giving updates. But it will still function. I can still use it until the day that I have to buy another PC. Oh, how I dread that day.

Can Bill Gates just make up his mind and stop creating different names for Window’s OS? Can Vista be the last? I know that technology improves through time. But can he just integrate all the improvements on the last OS standing?

Not all human beings have the size of Mr. Gates’ brain, especially the technology wiz side that I only have a very small portion of. So do not make things any more complicated than they already are.