SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- A San Francisco editor for a popular tech site says he is leading a campaign to stop Microsoft from discontinuing sales of Windows XP this week.

Galen Gruman, an executive editor of Web site InfoWorld, said his online petition urging Microsoft not to discontinue sales of XP to retailers and major PC manufacturers, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Monday.

Microsoft released Windows Vista as a successor to XP last year, but Gruman said he and others have resisted the upgrade.

"I think the issue is that it's not meaningfully better than XP," Gruman said.

He said Vista's improvements in security and other areas are not significant enough to justify the inconveniences involved in switching to Vista, including several technical glitches found in early versions and the system's steep hardware requirements.

Microsoft has said there will be some exceptions to its ban on XP sales, including deals made with manufacturers of computers that do not meet the system requirements for Vista. Security updates and other software for the operating system will continue to be produced through 2014, the company said.

Gruman said he plans to mail a printed version of the online petition to the home of Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.

"Maybe the big stack of paper will drive it home," Gruman said.

XP is good Vista sucks.

I tell yah what i don't like! Microsoft office 2007

I have XP and I have heard a lot of people complaining about VISTA

Vista stinks

i know several people who have vista and they like it

i've used it a few times and i like it! i didn't like the idea of it at first but its growing on me..

OK have to wait on my answer.

I've only played around with Vista, so I don't have any personal feeling about it one way or another. Last week I heard on some tech radio show that Intel won't be shipping with Vista, though. They won't support the OS.

Yeah, I've heard others complain about Office 2007. They say it's a HUGE resource hog.