Re: Vista

In article <1ixmd76.1sun0oyvra8g8N%steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, SteveH
says...
Conor <conor_turton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <73mqtnFvt4khU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, JackH says...

XP was much better from day one than the heap of shit that is 'Win ME', the
stepping stone between 98 and XP you have conveniently omitted to mention,
and I'd suggest that whilst not as unstable and flawed as ME, Vista is the
equivalent to that than a patched 98 in the great scheme of 'adopted by the
masses and why.

XP to Vista is nothing like 98SE to WinME. 98SE and WinME shared pretty
much everything. XP and Vista have completely different kernels, driver
models, network stacks etc etc etc. WinME was Win98SE with System
Restore bolted on.

Did you read what he posted?

If you did, you got a very different interpretation of it than I did.

He didn't look at technical details, more the way we'll look back at
vista when Win7 comes online.

Even not looking at the technical details then, Vista is considerably
different to XP.

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Conor

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