Re: To Vista, or not to Vista


"slebetman@xxxxxxxxx" <slebetman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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. I've purchased
multiple copies of Windows XP operating systems in the box.

Hmmm.. I'm still running Win2K here. It happily ignores things like
activation etc ;-)

Same here, it's the last OS I will use from M$. It actually works, is very
stable, and does not phone home or try to do things automatically for you.




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