But why would anyone want to go to Vista?

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Re: But why would anyone want to go to Vista?

 

Ha! We got ours for Queen Eliz's Coronation!

 

"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message

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> My family got the first TV in 1948 and I watched It's Howdy Doody Time

> every afternoon.

>

> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message

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>> I'm a Gilligan's Island fan myself.

>>

>> "PD43" <pauld1943@comcast.net> wrote in message

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>>> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote:

>>>

>>>>He should just watch reruns of http://blip.tv/file/340692/ instead.

>>>

>>> Reruns of Green Acres is more his speed ;-)

>>

>

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Re: But why would anyone want to go to Vista?

 

Soupy Sales was much more fun - he could dance!

 

 

"PD43" <pauld1943@comcast.net> wrote in message

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> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote:

>

>>My family got the first TV in 1948 and I watched It's Howdy Doody Time

>>every

>>afternoon.

>

> In the Chicago area it was on every afternoon at 4:00 or 4:30. I

> think it was 4:00.

[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: But why would anyone want to go to Vista?

 

 

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote in message

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> M.I.5¾ wrote:

>> "Bill in Co." <not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote in message

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>>> I was just curious about this (seriously).

>>> I mean, a real (scientific) reason, and not that "everybody else seems

>>> to

>>> be doing it, so we feel obliged to", or "that it can play better games".

>>

>> When I bought my previous laptop (5 years ago), it came with Windows XP.

>> I

>> was sufficiently struck with it as an operating system that I upgraded my

>> desktop to XP and apart from one or two applications that wouldn't run, I

>> never regreted it.

>>

>> I recently had to replace my laptop and it came with Windows Vista. I

>> have

>> to say that I do not feel anything like the same desire to update my

>> desktop. I find it clunky; things are no longer in their logical place.

>> The changes to the visual appearance are completely unnecessary. And as

>> for

>> the ability to display all the windows in a 3 dimensional view: what is

>> that

>> all about? Oh, and it is a complete memory hog.

>

> Yup, sounds like a pretty good summary. A true albatross.

 

And that after just 4 days of ownership and turning it on 3 times (and the

first of those was just to set it all up).

[Guest Bill in Co.]

Re: But why would anyone want to go to Vista?

 

M.I.5¾ wrote:

> "Bill in Co." <not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote in message

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>> M.I.5¾ wrote:

>>> "Bill in Co." <not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote in message

>>> news:uH3TQJ$gIHA.5780@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>>>> I was just curious about this (seriously).

>>>> I mean, a real (scientific) reason, and not that "everybody else seems

>>>> to be doing it, so we feel obliged to", or "that it can play better

>>>> games".

>>>

>>> When I bought my previous laptop (5 years ago), it came with Windows XP.

>>> I was sufficiently struck with it as an operating system that I upgraded

>>> my

>>> desktop to XP and apart from one or two applications that wouldn't run,

>>> I

>>> never regreted it.

>>>

>>> I recently had to replace my laptop and it came with Windows Vista. I

>>> have to say that I do not feel anything like the same desire to update

>>> my

>>> desktop. I find it clunky; things are no longer in their logical place.

>>> The changes to the visual appearance are completely unnecessary. And as

>>> for the ability to display all the windows in a 3 dimensional view: what

>>> is

>>> that all about? Oh, and it is a complete memory hog.

>>

>> Yup, sounds like a pretty good summary. A true albatross.

>

> And that after just 4 days of ownership and turning it on 3 times (and the

> first of those was just to set it all up).

 

I even find XP to be a bit of an albatross, in comparison to Win98SE.

Of course, I guess that figures, since we're comparing a 100 MB operating

system with a 1 GB one, (more or less).

 

(I don't even want to think about the King of all albatrosses, Vista. I

wouldn't be surprised if that came in at 10 GB).

 

And we are talking about *operating systems*, here, aren't we? (And not

3D, color crayon, multi-graphic, "application appliances", aren't we)?

 

Nope, guess not. :-)