Microsoft's Vista.....

[groucho]

Sir. My I.T guys tell me that Vista will be no longer by mid summer. Microsoft will merge Vista into another version of....?... XP? As of now, no one knows for sure. For myself. I have never had an issue with my version of Vista. I would take it over XP any day. It is a much more user friendly system. I guess I'm simply...lucky. G.

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[John L. Lucci]

Sir. My I.T guys tell me that Vista will be no longer by mid summer. Microsoft will merge Vista into another version of....?... XP? As of now, no one knows for sure. For myself. I have never had an issue with my version of Vista. I would take it over XP any day. It is a much more user friendly system. I guess I'm simply...lucky. G.

Windows 7 (Which is the follow on to Vista) will have an "XP emulation mode" for a lack of a better term, but it's mechanics and it's interface will still be along Vista lines.

[RayP.]

Been sitting here for last hour while Microsoft downloads/installs another batch of patches,this Toshiba laptop was assembled Dec.08,Vista Sp1 was pre-installed,2GB mem/160GB hard drive,bought it about the first of the month,only had it fired up off/on about a week,so far has had another service pack and about 45 patches downloaded and installed,if my old 98 Toshiba would have been capeable of burning disks I would not have bought this one,don't use a computer like everyone else does,just use for things such as email,forums,graphics/pics,google/research,never listen to music,very seldom watch a video,never do business,banking and the like by computer,if ever find out what half this stuff is I'll remove it and get rid of some of the,clutter,make it look like an old Vic 20,

RayP.

[Youngblood]

I built a new box a bit over a year ago to replace the XPPro primary that I had built in Spring'03 ... I chose Vista Ultimate as the OS.

It is buggy, certain services will not start and some things I cannot accomplish on this new box (in order to fax I must depend upon one of my XPPro boxes).

Rather than turn it off I put it into sleep mode ... but every couple of weeks it no longer "see" my DSL ... until I reboot.

Overall, I am not enthusiastic about my bent & buggy ~$170 OS purchase.