Hello TIM!

11 Jun 09 05:48, you wrote to JEFF BINKLEY:

 JB>> My old PC was an AMD Athlon 1800+ running Windows 2000.  My new one
 JB>> is an AMD quad core 9950 with an ASUS NVIDIA motherboard and 6 -
 JB>> 1.5T drives.  I moved up to XP Pro ....

 TR> Windows `Vista' is great. Of all the versions of Windows, Vista is
 TR> probably the best one I've used. The processor is very fast.

The Processor wouldnt be part of Vista, the Processor is part of your computer.

Alot of the bad rap Vista got was not exactly Microsofts fault, but you
cant tell that to the ignorant public whom only want to point and click and
not bother to understand why and how their hardware and software do the
things they do. Then you have the paid critics and bloggers whom hopped
onto and rode that wave.

I was there when XP was released and the bitching about it was the same as
it was with Vista, now these same people decry Vista and prefer XP.

The complaints:

My software no longer works
My Hardware no longer works
Its slow

When Migrating to XP, people were often coming off of Windows 95,98,98SE or
ME, and those versions of Windows were basically shunts on top of DOS. XP
was the first NT based OS meant for the general public (NTv3.x and 2K were
targetted at business), NT is night and day different from DOS.

So when people moved up to XP, many of their old software titles werent
written with a NT OS in mind and would not install, load much less run
under XP. The architecture of XP meant that hardware drivers needed
rewriting. Microsoft did a wonderful job of including loads of generic
drivers, but not all of them, the remaining responsibility for driver
updates rested at the feet of the third party vendors. Didnt matter, people
said XP was junk..

XP however didnt mature until 2 years after its release with the dawn of
Service Pack 2, this also coincides with the fact that the additional 2
years afforded the third party folk time to get their collective acts
together.. Now XP was everyones darling..

XP also has the distinction in this day and age of malware to be the most
widely targetted and exploited OS.

Microsoft has typically released a new OS every 3 years, 95,98,01,,,
Windows ME was an aberration and a deviation was Vista being the first new
version of Windows in 6 years following XP.

Vista was written with more security in mind as a reaction to what XP
endured, yet there were more changes done under the hood.

Vista had a rather long development cycle, but like with XP, the third
party vendors were horrible in getting out their apps and hardware drivers
capable of running under Vista.

So the complaints were:

My software no longer works
My Hardware no longer works
Its slow

and people placed the blame all on Microsoft, ignoramuses they are.

Long story short, it is now just over 2 years past Vista's debut, service
pack 2 is out and Vista has matured..


Look out though, Windows 7 is coming out 10/22/2009.

 TR> I'm wondering where the two welfare queen's, Otto and `Whiney' Wayne,
 TR> are getting the money for computer equipment.

Wayne claims to be getting his computer equipment from the trash.

I suspect that Sauer is getting his equipment as hand me downs from family members?

A better question is how is Sauer affording Cable TV and high speed internet?

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