Re: To Vista, or not to Vista

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:00:05 GMT, PeteS <peter.smith8380@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Joerg wrote:

Winfield Hill wrote:


From what I've read, and from my perspective, we engineers
should avoid Vista at all costs, while we can. Several of
my co-workers have rushed to purchase new laptops, etc.,
now, while they still come with Windows XP. ...


Absolutamente! I also went on a mad dash to get HW with XP before it's too late. Last part came in this morning. So I don't have to worry about that stuff for several years.


I have a bunch of copies of W2K pro (so I can use the few Windows tools I must have) along with all the service packs and updates (I have them all cached).

Don't even have to worry about that 'genuine disadvantage' program. XP never had anything I needed.

Cheers

PeteS


I'll say. I regret being hasty and just running out and buying a
replacement PC that had XP already installed... bloat-bloat-bloat :-(


You might not have had any choice. When I bought a laptop four or so years ago I was able to cajole them into installing NT, and they docked me $100 for that. I gladly paid. On the next one a couple years ago they told me that there is some hardware in there where only XP has the required drivers or it plain won't work.

So, end of last tax year (smirk...) I went and bought another laptop to make sure I won't be stuck with Vista.

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Regards, Joerg

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