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Originally Posted by Pride
Your wrong.
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I don't think I am wrong. I think that I think more like the typical consumer than a computer geek who does not mind experimenting with, modifying and tweaking his computer constantly.
First of all, there must be a good reason to update an operating system. Primarily that there must be things in the new OS that you either need or want that XP does not provide. Other than some eye candy, Vista is not much of an upgrade over XP. Microsoft removed the really nice stuff they had planned on releasing in Vista.
Secondly, and also very important, the new OS must work as good or better than the old OS. From what I have been reading, Vista still has more problems overall than does XP. I certainly understand why...but the fact remains that it does have more problems than XP regardless.
To emphasize my second point, today I heard a story of a diesel parts company located near me who can't pay bills or invoice or even get emails because they "upgraded" to Vista. They cant even reverse the damage and go back to XP because Microsoft did not provide for the possibility that Vista might screw things up. That's certainly not very good thinking on Microsoft's part especially for their business customers.
Even if i was given Vista for free, I would not load it until it becomes a better operating system than XP. I need my computer to work..I am not interested in experimenting on it. I simply don't want to hassle with it
and potentially cause my old software to not work. It is NOT worth taking the risk. XP works fine for me and that's how I want to keep things.
Ultimately if Microsoft wants to play hardball by trying to force Vista on me before Vista is ready for the masses then screw em...I will go buy a Mac that can run my PC software. At least with a Mac I know I wont be scrambling around trying to make it work.