You can still buy Windows XP here:
http://www.softwaremedia.com/category/461.html
They are a quality vendor - I've done business with them for years.
Tom Hargrave
www.kegkits.com
----Original Message----
From: LarryT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 03/16/07 06:49 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Vista hits the recyclers
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Hi Kevin,
Just between you & me, I think MS needed to sell some more software
so
they created Vista where a need had not been shown to exist - at least
not
anything I need. I like MS because I believe their suite of programs
that
communicated with others at a time when that wasn't a given - *sure*,
it
was self-serving - because they're in business to make money. But I
don't
want to be a test dummy for a new OS.
Back to Vista - I am reasonably happy with XP. It does just about
everything needed even though I'm sure Vista has many enhancements, I
doubt
they're worth (to me) the cost of buying a new OS and agonizing thru the
period of de-bugging.
People buying new puters are stuck unless they want to do things the
old
fashioned way and are willing to install XP in a new puter. Not a bad
idea
IMHO. Since I still have my XP CD I may go that route if I upgrade.
Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Kraly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Vista hits the recyclers
> The time had come for me to purchase a new laptop, so off to the store
I
> went. Everything was set up with Vista, so I bought an HP. I
couldn't
> use
> the lighted multimedia buttons at the top of the keyboard since I
couldn't
> do it by touch alone since touching them set them off and there was no
way
> to tell which one I pushed. Back that one went. I then purchased a
> Toshiba
> that was also set up with Vista only to find out that my Jaws For
Windows
> synthesizer wouldn't work with Vista, DARM! I ended up buying another
> Toshiba, the last one with Xp, the Media Center Edition. This one
> required
> the professional version of the voice synth, a $340 upgrade! I
figured
> this
> was worth not going with Vista, and it's working out. Wifey was
having
> similar problems and ended up going with an XP equipped Toshiba
laptop,
> the
> exact same one I have. Her magnification software works with either
XP or
> Vista, so we're OK for a while. The guys at both comp stores we went
to
> said, and I quote,
>
> "Vista SUCKS!!!!"
>
> Kevin in Hillsboro, OR
> 1983 300SD 266K miles, Ursula
>
>
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