Re: Dimension - XP or Vista?

Well, yes it is Micro$oft's fault! Hey, they own the design of Window$ lock
stock and barrel. If they change the driver APIs, as they almost always do from
release to release, you as an Independent Hardware Vendor have exactly two
choices. One is to do nothing, thereby making your devices obsolete. The other
is to spend considerable dollars developing, testing, and qualifying (as in the
lame and dreadfully expensive WHQL) your drivers with the new release. No
surprise, but a large number of devices used in large corporations (e.g. most HP
business-class laser printers) get updated drivers, and many devices used by
consumers (e.g. CHEAP HP inkjets and PSCs) get either no drivers at all or
drivers with greatly reduced functionality compared to the original drivers. All
of this leaves folks, especially consumers, with the Hobson's choice of running
Vista and replacing hardware or running good old now-comfortable XP with
perfectly good hardware. (Contrast that with many popular newer Linux distros
which still run perfectly well on older even Pentium class hardware.)

The only sane and rational recommendations to anyone contemplating Vista are to
NOT install a Vista upgrade over an existing Windows OS and to do homework
thoroughly BEFORE buying a system with Vista (or installing Vista) to know
exactly which devices will continue to be productive running under Vista. Oh,
yeah, and make sure that all favorite apps run under Vista. As with any
operating system choice, the decision is a personal one, and likely to change as
Vista matures... Ben Myers

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:21:34 -0700, "paulmd@xxxxxxx" <paulmd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 18, 11:40 pm, Steve <h...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
If you were buying a new Dimension, would you go with XP or Vista?
Wondering if Vista is worth the hardware/software compatibility
hassles...

--

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear
but forgetting where you heard it.

...Laurence J. Peter

At the moment, I'd pick XP. Vista still has driver bugs (not all of
which are microsoft's fault).

.

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