On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:42:21 +0000, Larry wrote:

"Roger Long" wrote in
:

Does anyone have any solid info on whether Vista will crash if it
doesn't contact Micro$oft via the Internet occasionally?

I may have other reasons now for having a new laptop on board and you
can't get one without Vista. I also down't want to do surgery on the
battery of a new one.


Vista sucks and will for 3 more years as user/guiney pigs do all of
Billy's R&D for free, finding its flaws, security holes and testing its
STUPID copy protection schemes.

XP sales have skyrocketed since its introduction......

The day Vista came out, its first-day sales more than doubled XP's first
day sales. That was the "official" story and sounded great!

What they FAILED to mention was on Vista's first day, XP sales for that
day were 2.8 TIMES what Vista sales were....on that first day...(c;

Guinea pig is right. And 3 years sounds right too. Long time.
Besides, why would somebody let a computer mfg dictate what OS they
should use?
That's already changed and you *can* get a new laptop from Dell with
XP, and others will probably follow.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D8OJVLTO0.html

--Vic