Tim,
I do understand your position. Really, but, let us agree to disagree.
This is my personal rant. I really do mean no disrespect, really.
Let's consider this my personal spew....
I have spent the past 8 years of my life reading this List's bitches,
comments,
concerns, platitudes, and such while WinXP matured to the product it is now
@SP2. Besides just this List, I get the same commentary from other sources.
I'll agree that my sources are far less than yours.
And, I still use Win2KProSP4 as my basic OS. Why? It just flat works. 24/7.
Yes, I am testing WinXP. I do know I may have to move there. Still
searching
for vendors willing to sell it w/o having to buy ~$1500 worth of "new"
computer
stuff just to be able to buy a stinking MS CD of WinXP. Sheesh!
Yes, OK. I do have limited contacts and search criteria. My bad....... Am
working
with my older Brother on this ATM.... :)
I do know that you need to stay on the bleeding edge of OS technology because
of the service and experience you have. How many personal versions of
Vista have
you actually bought for personal use? If you got your personal use
copies via your
work-20, all bets are off. From everything I have read, Vista is very
expensive.
And, not just the base OS. It demands additional expense in hardware also
for some
of us. Are we just supposed to toss out our own old personal computers?
Do you honestly think this will happen? ........... :)
And, yes, I do understand that this is one of those technology gates too.
We are
moving from the 32-bit OS world into the 64-bit OS world. IIRC, moving
from the 16-
bit OS world to the 32-bit OS world was a PITA, but nothing like what I
read these
days. OK. I am perhaps grossly uninformed. Accept this. Excuse me!
OK. You like Vista. Fine. Many on planet Earth do not. If MS wants to
push this,
I suspect Apple and *nix will most likely get many, many more converts.
And, this is JMHO too. And, /rant......... :)
Best,
Duncan
At 09:52 01/15/2008 -0800, you wrote:
This is getting to be ridiculous. Yes, Vista is different. A lot of PC
users do not grasp on how to use Vista. There are ways to turn off certain
warnings and what not. In fact, if you have the hardware for it why not go
vista? You'll miss out...
The one thing I do not like about vista is the Audio control. No more
Directsound to hardware. It's all done in HAL (Not the 2001 Computer
either). This makes a lot of gamers pissed off, especially when they use
SDPIF to connect to their speaker system.
I remember not so far back that XP was getting the same, if not more of the
same treatment. BTW, I've been told Mac's new OS is faster than Vista. Who
knows.
Regards,
Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:19 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Save XP!
Go to this page and sign the Save XP petition. Friends don't let
friends get stuck with Vista.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/
T
