His very words: "Don't buy Vista - it's going to be a diaster - stick
with XP because Vista will last only as long as it takes to build
another XP - it's going to become the ME of the MS ops line."

I've said that ever since I was released from my testing NDA. It *is* a
disaster. Sure it will work for many, maybe the majority of folks, BUT...
not as well as XP. The eye candy is what sells everyone on it, and I will
admit, it's pretty cool. However, it's NOT cool enough to make up for it's
faults.

All my home computers (3) are XP, and the 6 computers at my office are as
well. It'll stay that way until they come up with something better. AAMOF,
we have another computer at my office that still runs Win98SE! It has
property management software on it that we can't get to work on anything
newer. We could upgrade the software for a cost of $40,000.00 but we decided
it'd be cheaper to continue to run 98 on that one system... duhhh g

--Mike

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 03:36:08 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


I've been reading the various comments regarding Vista versus XP (while
mentally filtering some of the personal BS expressed by some) and have
reached the conclusion that I'll stick with XP for as long as I can.

I've stayed out of this, but I will say this.

My brother runs a huge IT operation and knows his stuff when it comes
to this.

His very words: "Don't buy Vista - it's going to be a diaster - stick
with XP because Vista will last only as long as it takes to build
another XP - it's going to become the ME of the MS ops line."

My wife used to have issues with her two computers until we
finally disabled Norton in them (at the advice of a computer guru). No
problems since. I had one spyware infection on my home laptop a while
back
and SpyDoctor cured it.

If I could I would cancel Norton.

The problem is I don't know what to replace it with.