Hey Chris,
Hi!
A 1-2 year old pc should handle Vista pretty easily
Vista is not free, and upgrading OS is not a low-impact procedure from
either the user (UI) or system perspective. This is in contrast to
appying a Service Pack, which is free and is designed to change the
guts without changing the look-and-feel or breaking other system
stuff... not that SPs are truly free (try downloading one over a
modem, while paying a telco per second) or always clean.
Like most businesses, support for older versions peters out with the release
of newer ones. MS isn't the only one guilty of that, and it's not limited to
just software. Televisions, cars, appliances, etc. all suffer from this same
business methodology. Funny it is too as most companies make more from
repairs than they do from sales of new product, kind of a non-sequitor, is
it not?
Actually, it always surprises me how one can get new parts for old
cars and motor cycles - in spitre of the vastly greater resources and
costs involved in getting these to far corners of the world, such as
Durban. It is easier for sware vendors, who just stick a copy on a
server and let you do the shlepp of "distributing" it on your dime,
and yet they are flakier on this anyway.
If we are to pay per copy for the OS as if it were a durable part of
the system, then it must last as long as the rest of the system, which
in local business practice is usually counted as 3 years.
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