XP hooked users, but now it gets the hook
Petitions are a time-honored political tool to save endangered species, preserve open space and agitate for change.
Now Microsoft Corp. finds itself the target of a petition drive to save - get this - a PC operating system.
Today the Redmond, Wash., software giant officially stops selling Windows XP, the program that animates millions of business and consumer PCs.
Microsoft wants to push corporate and consumer buyers toward Windows Vista, its new-and-improved program to do things like display glitzier graphics and keep spyware off the machine.
