It's getting harder to find laptops without Vista. We are getting an ever increasing number of requests to upgrade Vista to XP.
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 19:26 -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: > Re: years from now... (see Jason's last line) Bummer! It has been > less than 60 days... > didn't someone mention not being able to get XP from Dell already? > > ben > > > On 12/29/06, Jason LaPier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After using and supporting XP for the last four years or so, > I'd have to admit, it doesn't BSOD as much as earlier versions > of Windows - in fact, even when I did see a BSOD it was > hardware related (bad memory, failing hard drive, etc). > Anyway, I think the point of the OP was that 98% of Windows > users could use XP for the next 5 or 10 years if they had to > and not even blink (as long as their AV works and their OS > updates keep coming in) - there's no point in upgrading to > Vista, because Vista doesn't have anything additional to offer > the web-surfing, word-processing, mp3-playing, general pop. > > My biggest problem with OS X is lack of UI feedback. Most of > the time if an application crashes, it just goes away - ugly > error messages are hidden from the end-users, which both > confuses the user and makes support that much more of a pain. > Does hiding the error messages make the OS appear more stable > to the end-user? I don't know. Probably. I just wish there was > a way to at least go into System Prefs and check a box > somewhere that would change that behavior. > > I've pretty much gotten to the point where I hate Windows and > OS X equally, but for entirely different reasons. When it > comes to user support, I find Windows easier to troubleshoot > (the Event Viewer beats the pants off the 'Console' and > googling for Windows errors yields solutions, whereas googling > for Mac-related problems tends to lead me to propaganda) but > of course OS X has a much more intuitive interface, cutting > down on the "How do I" issues. So generally, in my office I > let the end-users pick their poison. I won't support Vista > until vendors like Dell no longer offer XP pre-installed, > which I have a feeling will be years from now. > > - Jason > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 9:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content > protection,hardware and the death of open source in > the "consumer" world. > > > > I'd have to say you are talking about mac-users > there! > > > "2% of people are perhaps fortunate enough to have it > work all the time. Blessed are thosethat have never > seen a blue screen and/or never sworn at their > computer." With of course the exception that I had > sworn at my computer at least a few times (mostly for > the lack of dual-releases on games and/or game > developement tools). I only wish apple spent as much > time making developement suites (if they made any at > all) as easy to understand as they did the workings of > their os. > > -E > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 7:49 PM > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content > protection, hardware and the death of open source in > the "consumer" world. > > That seems a gross over statement. Should be "XP works > sometimes > > for 98% of the people that use it". > > > > > > --- Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >XP works just fine for 98% of the people out there. > > > Miller > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection > around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > ______________________________________________________ > Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free > safety and security tools, free access to millions of > high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail > and more. > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > --===============2018839196==-- > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
