Re: What Dell thinks of it's customers...

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:45:59 -0700, Jeff wrote:

I have to run windows as the sim is windows based.
I still use XP.  No plans to upgrade to Vista.

I had a laptop that ran Vista. I won't make that mistake ever again.

I was on the beta test for Vista. The last message I sent to Microsoft
before uninstalling it was "I never thought I'd be running a 286 again..."


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