Richard Creighton wrote: >>> Actually, M$ have recently announced that they are extending support for >>> XP, for some unknown reason people are not buying as many Vista copies >>> as M$ expected :-) >>> >> Few hundreds reasons per product. >> Count is mostly 2 (Vista & MS Office) which comes out as one good computer >> upgrade (no monitor and accessories). >> >> > Actually, from what I've seen in articles around, Vista wants > state-of-the-art equipment to run and much of the legacy equipment just > doesn't seem to want to run and a lot of people are balking at having to > buy new computers just to buy a new OS and it's new and improved bugs. > One nice thing about Linux....so far... is that it historically allows > people to almost run on their old 'junk' machines and still do useful > work. I hope this doesn't change any time soon even as it supports the > newer equipment, I hope the old boxes aren't forgotten.
I fully aggree. But, as sad as it is, as a matter of fact, you cannot buy a new computer without vista anymore. There are exceptions and there are business machines that you still can order with XP, but in general, the new PC market "is vista". In consequence, within a year or two we will be living in a "mostly vista" world, whether we like it or not. Kind regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
