Re: What the Hell has happened to this group???

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:16:56 -0700, Archimedes' Lever
<OneBigLever@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:02:36 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:50:26 -0700 (PDT), orion.osiris@xxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

On Apr 13, 4:06 pm, John Larkin



I plan to stick with XP for the next decade at least.

Big mistake, John. BIG mistake!!

Why so? It works pretty well. XP may be the high point in Windows
evolution.

John

Zero support. When the rest of the world is sitting their with a
mini-super on their desks, you will be plodding along alone with your 8
year old or more XP CRAP.

XP "plods" at about twice the speed of Vista. We had two Vista
machines, factory-installed OS from big-name vendors, and they were
not only pigs, they hung up all the time. We upgraded them to XP.

If Microcrap comes up with a better OS than XP, I'll consider it. As
is, Vista is slower and less reliable, trying to look like Apple and
failing. Windows 7 looks to be just a small spin of Vista.

Our HP super-redundant hot-plug RAID machines, running XP, are
bulletproof. ECC ram; redundant power supplies, fans, and BIOS. You
can yank a C: drive out and it keeps going. We just ordered four more
- we had a dozen already - and they just never break.

That's all an OS is supposed to do, run apps without getting in the
way. If it does that, there is *no* reason to upgrade.


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/14/windows_7_rollout_delay/


John


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