From: "John Beamish" 

I've long agreed with you that Vista offers me no compelling reason to upgrade.

As for businesses, you are correct for the short term.  Eventually, though,
licenses for XP (as a simple example) won't be available (from their
supplier or from their own stock of pre-bought licences).  At that point
they have to choose whether to support an environment of XP and Vista or
just Vista.  (OK, there are other possiblities and combinations but I am a
bear of little brain).  That was all I was trying to say.

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:38:16 -0400, Geo.  wrote:

> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.trj2f1hjm6tn4t{at}dellblack.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>
>>> I'm well aware that they are out there.  My point was simply that, at
>>> some
> point, they will no longer be available even from the sources your
> provided.<<
>
> I'm not talking about someday, I'm talking about today and why people
> are feeling this need to upgrade current systems to the latest and
> greatest version of everything.
>
> Back in the NT4 days, it was a question of functionality, NT4 was still
> developing critical capabilities and so were the apps but by the time
> W2K rolled around both the OS and the apps were mature. That need to
> upgrade went away and coupled with the now quite restrictive nature of
> the licenses, included DRM and copy protection, I just fail to
> understand this constant need to upgrade. So I asked.
>
> You seemed to be saying "because it's what comes on systems" but for
> businesses that buy systems in quantities you can easily special order
> less the hard drives if you like and still purchase the OS you want. I
> guess security updates could be an issue but on an internal network even
> that isn't real motivation imo.
>
> Geo.

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