I just thought it was funny that when Bill Gates decided to unveil Win98, he did so with a demonstration on public television and the system crashed right on the air. I don't remember what show it was but I remember my mom saying something about it. It was pretty funny. It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you with no place to go. J.D. Fortune, Pretty Vegas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Gaming on Windows Vista?
> Hi Liam, > Yeah, I usually wait as well. I wait for the dust to settle and for the > issues to be discovered to upgrade. > As I recall I used Windows 2000 up until late 2003 or early 2004 before > I went XP, and it had already been out a while so I usually don't rush > in to upgrades. Especially what happened to me in mid 90's taught me > the lesson. I was going back to college and I had to have the latest > computers with Win 95 on them. Oh yes, had to have it. Well got it for > school only to find Jaws, and everything else worked badly, and the os > sucked, sucked sucked. It was only to the second release of 95 did it > become stable. The original original release which was only shipped on > computers for a few months was crash happy. > Can you imagine trying to explain to your parents why you need a Win 95 > upgrade when you have 95 that the version that shipped with the computer > was riddled with bugs, was the first eddition, and the second eddition > had like loads of patches to fix that. > Well, I eventually got it, but I have found first edditions and releases > usually aren't cracked up to much. XP SP2 is much more rock solid than > the 2001 eddition although many probably have forgotten the monsterous > security holes and bugs in XP's initial release. > As for VS6 it has been dead a long while. In 2003 they were urging > people to move away from it, and in 2005 they dropped support completely. > > Liam Erven wrote: >> usually with an operating system, I wait a year and a half to upgrade. >> Knowing with the way a lot of people work, they'll do the same thing. >> vs 6 is ancient technology. I don't blame microsoft for not supporting >> it >> in Vista. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
