Yes, you all are very silly indeed. Vista is a wonderful update from XP (and YES I'd certainly do a clean install). I've got it on my new laptop and my son's gaming desktop system, and I installed it on a machine I bought in 2003, all with no issues. The press loves a train wreck (if it bleeds it leads) and so since there have been some problems in some places with Vista, that's all we hear about. Gee, big news: a BETA version of a service pack for an OS had some problems - call NBC!!
Still, Vista has over double the market share of MacOS, RIGHT NOW, and that's still with Windows XP retaining a (shrinking) share of the market at about 75%. Yes, for those of you who are mathematically inclined, it's 100% = WindowsXP+WindowsVIsta+MacOS+DogsAndCats WindowsXP = 75% WindowsVista >= 2 * MacOS DogsAndCats = Linux, etc. And yes, since we don't know the value of DogsAndCats we can't solve the equation to find out the market shares of Vista and MacOS (but they're around 12% and 5%, respectively). And yes, that means the DogsAndCats = 7%. MacOS is NOT taking over the planet, regardless of what Steve Jobs says (or how cool the Mac Air is). Vista and Windows 7 WILL take over the 75-%share that XP now has. Gosh, I must need sleep, and a new Treo/Centro/??? device to play with!! Either that, or I'm off my meds again - never can remember which it is!! :-) Cheers, Don -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Kaplan Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Re: Hotsync 7.0.2 or 6.0.1 for Treo 650? Hello, Harold M. Goldner. On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:59:42 -0500 you said: > Vista is the single biggest reason Apple's stock is where it is. The biggest problem with Vista, in my experience, is people who think that they can upgrade from a prior version of Windows. I run a clean-install of Vista on a laptop (purchased new from HP) and it works just fine. The only problems I had was some initial head-banging over things like UAC, but after a reasonable amount of time, I figured out how to disable the annoying things, got used to the things that are different, and LIKED some of the new features. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them. So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." (Marcus Cole, B5 "A Late Delivery From Avalon") Yahoo! Groups Links
