Richard Creighton wrote: >>> Actually, M$ have recently announced that they are extending support for >>> XP, for some unknown reason people are not buying as many Vista copies >>> as M$ expected :-) >>> >>> >> Few hundreds reasons per product. >> Count is mostly 2 (Vista & MS Office) which comes out as one good computer >> upgrade (no monitor and accessories). >> >> >> > Actually, from what I've seen in articles around, Vista wants > state-of-the-art equipment to run and much of the legacy equipment just > doesn't seem to want to run and a lot of people are balking at having to > buy new computers just to buy a new OS and it's new and improved bugs. > One nice thing about Linux....so far... is that it historically allows > people to almost run on their old 'junk' machines and still do useful > work. I hope this doesn't change any time soon even as it supports the > newer equipment, I hope the old boxes aren't forgotten. > I often tell people to pick up one of those cheap "refurbs" and put Linux on it. I have done so myself on several occasions. A 3 or 4 year old "off lease" business computer is plenty good enough for most people running Linux.
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