Re: Fun toy to have

Gig 601Xl Builder wrote:

I tested Vista on one machine in our office. It ran slower than the same machine with XP. There was a lack of drivers for some fairly common hardware and this was about 8 months after Vista shipped.

MS pretty much knows it built a dog. That's why they have kept pushing back the drop dead date on XP.

This will seem obvious as written, but it seems to escape many of the people I talk to on a day-to-day basis:

Most of the machines that Vista is meant to run on haven't been built (or, in fact, designed) yet. That includes the systems presently being sold.

Meanwhile -MOST- early-stage software products, especially Microsoft OSes and web browers, are buggy and insecure crap for at least the first year after they're released because X-million people haven't found X-million ways to break them.

I work with a guy who actually CAMPED OUT for the midnight release of Windows 95 at Incredible Universe. He CAMPED OUT for an operating system.

And, wouldn't you be surprised; he's still single. But he's got a killer new Mac on which to play World of Warcraft and Flight Simulator X.

-c
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