Kharn
Lord Techie,
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As a Linux user it is not often you will find me defending Microsoft, personally I like the MS operating systems I just prefare to use community driven software. I am just sick an tired of people basing Vista over XP I use maybe 3 operating systems a day XP, Vista and a Linux based OS what grinds my gears so much is we have seen this before and have been proven right, that the new microsoft OS will provide better support an features than the last one.
If any of you can rember what it was like when XP came out will not be surprised, I can recall people saying "oh XP looks nice an all but it's buggy an not compatible with my system." Well I have news for you things change it's not often that some new software arrives on the market an has no compatibility issues or bugs. Games, Applications, Drivers will all have issues to start with. Now i am not saying that Vista is bug free an yes there has been issues but most where fixed very quickly an i applaud Microsoft for this.
In work I get at least 3 or 4 calls a week from people saying they bought a new computer an would like us to put XP on it for them, well we say no sorry. Most new laptops an Desktops are supplied vista only and the drivers are either not available for XP or if they are they are limited in the functionality. I can speak from personal experience with this as my colliuge spent 5 hours very recently downgrading a laptop so that a customer could use XP on it only to in the end call them up an say some of the features they bought the laptop for would not be available as the drivers where not supporting them.
If you want new features, want new functionality, an would like to use the latest and most up to date technologies upgrade to vista.
Sorry for the rant but I think it needed to be said.
If any of you can rember what it was like when XP came out will not be surprised, I can recall people saying "oh XP looks nice an all but it's buggy an not compatible with my system." Well I have news for you things change it's not often that some new software arrives on the market an has no compatibility issues or bugs. Games, Applications, Drivers will all have issues to start with. Now i am not saying that Vista is bug free an yes there has been issues but most where fixed very quickly an i applaud Microsoft for this.
In work I get at least 3 or 4 calls a week from people saying they bought a new computer an would like us to put XP on it for them, well we say no sorry. Most new laptops an Desktops are supplied vista only and the drivers are either not available for XP or if they are they are limited in the functionality. I can speak from personal experience with this as my colliuge spent 5 hours very recently downgrading a laptop so that a customer could use XP on it only to in the end call them up an say some of the features they bought the laptop for would not be available as the drivers where not supporting them.
If you want new features, want new functionality, an would like to use the latest and most up to date technologies upgrade to vista.
Sorry for the rant but I think it needed to be said.