Re: Windows vista, why???????

Gaz wrote:

I still think I would rather have an XP SP3 though, which would
include many of the features that makes OS X and linux more
secure (which Vista has copied).

Agree - I have yet to see a really worthwhile new feature in the Vista
package, most magazine coverage is desperately fawning nonsense about
trivial visual tweaking.


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