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fishead · Feb 09, 2005

Mentioning ms in here is like walking into a room with a wildman with a hatchet ready to chop on anyone who mentions ms, but I will take the chance and post something anyway. I hope I am not using too much data from this site, but I will leave plenty of links to it. This is fragments of and not the whole artical, please go to the website for the whole story. It also talks about linux, for some true perspective.

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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2190228,00.asp

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
September 28, 2007

Night of the Living Vista

If Vista was doing great, then why did Dell break ranks with the other major OEMs to start offering XP again and become the first top-tier vendor to offer XP in replacement for Vista in April? Adding insult to injury, Dell actually had the effrontery to offer desktop Linux to its customers.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2190228,00.asp

Other OEMs followed Dell's lead, or to be more precise, its customers' demands. Lenovo, for example, when it rolled out its revamped high-end ThinkPad T61p workstation notebooks in July, made a point of offering not just Vista but XP Pro and, yes, several Linux distributions, including Novell's SUSE, Red Hat and Turbo Linux.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2190228,00.asp

So it came as no surprise at all to me when Mike Nash, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows product management, announced that, due to OEM demand, Microsoft will keep selling XP until June 2008. Of course, he also claims there is little chance the June 30 date will be extended.

Want to bet?

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2190228,00.asp

There are many reasons why Vista is doing the zombie stumble. Microsoft has and continues to mislead customers about how much PC is really needed to run Vista. Even some of Windows' most loyal users are finding that its poor performance, lousy software support and pathetic driver support is too much to stomach. People who wouldn't touch any Microsoft product until the first service patch appears. And, last but never ever least, if XP isn't broke, why "fix" it with Vista?

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2190228,00.asp

Now you might think some of this is legacy backlash. People don't like change. They'd rather use Windows 2000 than XP, Windows 98 SE than 2000,and Windows ME more than...well, OK, no one liked ME. But I've been through these cycles many times before. This is different.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2190228,00.asp

XP SP2, with XP SP3 finally due to show up soon, is not only the best Windows to date, I can't think of a single reason to switch from XP to Vista. I'm not talking a good reason, I really mean any reason.

Click here to read more about Microsoft keeping Windows XP in play.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2189917,00.asp

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

Great! I'm glad to hear the public and OEMs are not taking this Vista mess lying down. I still haven't gotten a copy of XP but I most likely will before June of 2008.

Thanks for post the info, fishead.

sunny

Katy · Sep 28, 2004

I have no complaints with MS except having to tt CS in India... But now that I am able to fix most things myself, its not a problem... And yes I'm glad I have XP after all the tweaking etc, it works like a charm.

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

rb, you can get a copy of xp in ebay fairly cheap, and legal. I may do that but first I want to learn more about vista so I will know whats going on to help others. I don't need my new pc as a main right now, but eventually I will and so I will be buying a copy of xp in ebay.

I would recommend you try xp, it is really a joy. I don't know much about w2k, so I won't say anything about it, but with xp you get things like - you don't need winzip, its automatic and easy with xp. To compress, just right click and choose. Things like that. It is really user friendly. It is a gigantic improvement over w98, that I do know.

Katy · Sep 28, 2004

You are right about XP Spider...

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

lol, funny katy. mumum