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Re: (OT) but interesting= Windows Vista Beta 2: Largest software download in history
de meow2222 06/13/2006 11:27
Al Klein wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:23:31 +0100, hummingbird
> <OPRBMDQMZNLV@spammotel.com> wrote:
>
> >The lengths people will go to, to inflict pain upon themselves and
> >wreck their computers is amazing ;-)
>
> And when you consider that most computers still in use today can't run
> Vista (this from a customer support viewpoint - people don't spend
> money to replace computers that work unless the software they MUST use
> won't run on their computer) ...
Quite so. But it does remind me of the move from 98 to 2000, and the
early 2k machines that were quite overloaded running it. 2k offers
obvious advantages over 98, and on todays hardware most would choose 2k
not 98: the question is does V have any major advantages? Since its ms,
and since its initial spec is so wildly niappropriate, the answer is
presumably no. It may be we'll prefer it in 5 years, when the hardware
of the day runs it easily, but today anything that cant run on an
existing newish machine seems a farce.
NT