Vista, the new ME.

[David R. Norton, MVP Shell/User]

I was asking Zim Babwe since he's an officious ass who claims to
have worked up here at campus.

That's why he was the person I was quoting, not you

Ooops.

 

[john]

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"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
- Bill Gates
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Pop Quiz former MS hotshot.

Who ran the Bob project?

That's easy
Bob

 

[Guest]

Isn't funny that a year ago people we're griping about how awful XP was? Now
all of the sudden its a great and wonderful OS!

Personally, I've never liked XP and still don't. When I got a laptop 4 years
ago, I made sure I got Windows 2000, since that doesn't always think it knows
better like XP does (XP: I know you want to use that driver, but I think this
one's better [signed=better], so I'll install it - 2000: I know you want to
use that driver, I think this one's better, but I'll install whichever you
choose... - just one example)

Now I need a new laptop, the only options are XP and Vista, so I've
installed Vista on my old laptop to see if I consider it better than XP. And
yes, Vista is running on this 4 year old laptop - a little slowly, but not
painfully so.

And an unsupported OS certainly isn't a dead one: we have an 8 year old PC
still running Windows 98 (first edition, not SE) which does what it needs to
just fine (Word processing / spreadsheets, email, web)

 

[Paul-B]

Now I need a new laptop, the only options are XP and Vista, so I've
installed Vista on my old laptop to see if I consider it better than
XP. And yes, Vista is running on this 4 year old laptop - a little
slowly, but not painfully so.

Windows 2000 is still easily available, if you would prefer it. There
are loads of legal copies available, for example, on eBay.

 

[David R. Norton, MVP Shell/User]

Personally, I've never liked XP and still don't. When I got a
laptop 4 years ago, I made sure I got Windows 2000

If you recall the benchmark tests when XP first came out, the fastest
laptops AND desktops were always those running Win2k because of less
overhead.

Now I need a new laptop, the only options are XP and Vista, so
I've installed Vista on my old laptop to see if I consider it
better than XP. And yes, Vista is running on this 4 year old
laptop - a little slowly, but not painfully so.

As Paul B pointed out, Win2k is still available but do NOT consider it
for your new laptop until you can make sure there are drivers available
for the video, etc. that will work in 2k.

 

[Sam Crawford]

Now I need a new laptop, the only options are XP and Vista, so I've
installed Vista on my old laptop to see if I consider it better than XP.
And
yes, Vista is running on this 4 year old laptop - a little slowly, but not

painfully so.

You have the option of a Mac. Apple makes great laptops and OSX is second
to none.

I run Parallels on mine and I can run Windows 2000, XP or Vista inside of
OSX, just like opening another program.

Take a hard look.