> Supposedly, Micro$oft will stop offering XP OEM licenses to computer
> manufacturers and retail licenses next summer
I'm fortunate in that my wife is a teacher and can purchase installation
CDs every year. I've actually got more Windows XP Professional licenses
right now than I have computers to put them on!
I expect that within the next five years they will get the bugs worked
out of Vista - probably about the second fixpak or so, if past history
is any guide. I cannot claim any reasonable level of information
regarding Vista because, as I said, the one license I have (for "Vista
Small Business Edition") installed on my computer but it does not
recognize half the crucial elements like networking or the video
subsystem beyond the most rudimentary settings, and I just haven't had
time to sit down and work all the bugs out of it.
The system I am using has a two year old MoBo, an AMD 4600+ dual-core
processor, 3GB of RAM and a 160GB HD dedicated only to Vista. The "Vista
Preinstall Tool" gives me green check-marks all the way across the
board, but nonetheless it doesn't work. And I don't know what Vista
would have that I would find indispensable anyway. Eventually, we'll be
using it only because Microsoft decrees that it be so.
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