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Thank god. I'm planning on getting a new computer soon, this is a very good thing. Vista fails.

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".....Bowing to continued demand, Microsoft has again extended the life of Windows XP.

Three months after Microsoft stopped selling new copies of Windows XP, the software remains a top seller on Amazon.com.

(Credit: Amazon.com)

Although the largest PC makers can't sell XP anymore (except for ultra-low-cost machines), they can sell Vista Ultimate and Vista Business machines with XP discs in the box, or even Vista machines that are "factory downgraded" to Windows XP.

That option was supposed to go away early next year, as Microsoft was going to stop supplying Windows XP media after January 31. However, the company now says it will offer the discs through July 31, giving the option a six-month extension. (Update: PC makers will also be able to sell the factory downgraded machines online as well....."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10057617-56.html



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Vista really isn't that bad...



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akuma587 said:
Vista really isn't that bad...

Only true if you have RAM to spare and don't mind some annoying compatability issues.

 



akuma587 said:
Vista really isn't that bad...

 

 Its not, but Xp is just better. Though I'm currently using vista...




I don't use it for gaming, so I really can't say how it does on high-end performance, but if you have over 3 gigs of RAM you have to use XP 64-bit to actually use all your RAM, and that OS from what I have heard and seen is just plain bad and is compatible with barely anything.

So if you have a higher end gaming rig I figure you would almost have to use Vista by now.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

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I'll stick with XP untilI get a new computer, by that time RAM and others problems with Vista aren't going to be to bad.



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Vista rocks my socks!



I still have XP, I will get Vista once I have to buy a new computer.




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Why don't they just improve XP with some vista enhancements??? If it's not broken, don't fix it...



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That's what Vista is dude.