It's been fun but time to move on

[Colin Barnhorst]

I wish all you XP folks the best!

With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last
XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time for
me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep up with
both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a good time to
go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as well, but it is not
the same as using something daily.

Keep up the good work!

 

[Big Al]

I wish all you XP folks the best!

With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last
XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time
for me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep
up with both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a
good time to go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as
well, but it is not the same as using something daily.

Keep up the good work!

Good luck, Maybe some of us will make this migration to Vista one day too.

Damn, we sound like we are on Stargate SG-1 and we are moving on to a
hight plane of existence.

 

[JS]

All good things must come to an end.
Good luck with Vista.
As for me I'm waiting for Windows 7 if at all possible.

Again, best of luck
JS

 

[John]

I wish all you XP folks the best!

With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last
XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time
for me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep
up with both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a
good time to go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as
well, but it is not the same as using something daily.

Keep up the good work!

I'm sorry, but if you consider going over to Vista as moving on, then
there's not much hope for you.

John.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I've been using Vista since the beginning of beta 1 in 2005. I know very
well what I am doing.

 

[Alias]

I've been using Vista since the beginning of beta 1 in 2005. I know
very well what I am doing.

That's what Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld said when they attacked Iraq.

Alias

 

[RJK]

....psssst, ...I don't think he got your humour - in the first place !

regards, Richard

 

[RJK]

I've worked on several PC's with Vista in'em !
....they all looked like XP with a different theme | several things had been
moved to places where they were hard to find | ...and security settings had
been yanked up all over the place, ...so that, for example, you couldn't
even drop a new hosts file from mvps.org into
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC, without fighting with permissions !!
....I'm staying with XP ...just like I stayed with W98se !!

....good luck Colin, ...I'll take a peek in Vista NG's now and again.

regards, Richard

 

[XS11E]

I wish all you XP folks the best!

Thanks, Colin.

With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the
last XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so
it is time for me to finishing moving on to Vista.

Good luck and best wishes, we'll miss you. I just moved back from
Vista to XP and I'd forgotten just how much better Vista is but until
some essential software is updated, I'll be dual booting and I'll be
needing to use XP for my main OS. <sigh>

 

[John]

Thanks, Colin.


Good luck and best wishes, we'll miss you. I just moved back from
Vista to XP and I'd forgotten just how much better Vista is but until
some essential software is updated, I'll be dual booting and I'll be
needing to use XP for my main OS. <sigh>

Why dual boot? What can Vista do that XP can't?

John.

 

[XS11E]

Why dual boot? What can Vista do that XP can't?

Damn near everything it does, it does better, MUCH better!

For one thing, Vista finally got the media center right.

I dual booted for years during beta testing and finally decided I no
longer needed XP, I almost never booted into it. I decided to delete
XP and run Vista 64 only but some people (are you listening, Motorola?)
decided not to upgrade their software for 64 bit use and I need it.

 

[Bill in Co.]

I wish all you XP folks the best!

With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last
XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time
for
me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep up
with
both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a good time
to
go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as well, but it is
not
the same as using something daily.

Keep up the good work!

Sorry to see you go, Colin. Well, good luck over there!

 

[John]

Damn near everything it does, it does better, MUCH better!

And this would be why 1000's of people have been going back to XP since
Vista came out then would it.

John.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Thanks. I've been hanging out in the vista.hardware_devices ng for a couple
of years and that is enough for me. Good luck to you too.

 

[XS11E]

And this would be why 1000's of people have been going back to XP
since Vista came out then would it.

Nope, not 1,000s but please do continue your imaginary statistics,
they're entertaining.

There are people who won't RTFM or do their homework, Vista won't work
for them just like XP wouldn't work for them when it first came out
but, of course, you conveniently forgot that, didn't you?

 

[Just.some.guy]

Good luck, Maybe some of us will make this migration to Vista one day
too.

Damn, we sound like we are on Stargate SG-1 and we are moving on to a
hight plane of existence.

We have ascended. But like Daniel, we too will come back, but be in another
galaxy, this one called Vista.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

And to paraphrase Yogi, 90% of those are only half right.

 

[XS11E]

John isn't alone in this statistical world. After all, 72.3
percent of statistics are made up.

Lies, damn lies and statistics.
- Mark Twain

This might be appropriate to those, like John, who like to state
opinions with insufficient information to have an opinion:

Think about how stupid the average person is; now realise half of them
are dumber than that.
- George Carlin

And I'm gone. Too many problems with XP, it's just too damn unstable
trying to run hardware made for Vista, XP MCE's gone and me too. The
old software I need will have to run on my XP Laptop, I guess?

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Hell, I don't run Win98 or IE5 anymore but I still support it, Colin. Why
waste your knowledge?

 

[XS11E]

Hell, I don't run Win98 or IE5 anymore but I still support it,
Colin. Why waste your knowledge?

I can't speak for Colin but I stopped dual booting over a year ago and
then just a few days back I decided I needed XP MCE.

I was a bit surprised at the things I didn't remember about XP.
Knowledge gets stale very quickly, it's hard to keep up with all the
updates, service packs, new software, etc. if you're not running the
OS.

FWIW, XP MCE was a huge mistake, it's just not able to handle current
hardware so I finally just deleted it, I'm too old and too tired to put
up with that much agravation...