On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 18:44 -0700, Ron Castro wrote:
> I just ordered a new laptop today and faced the daunting question of "XP or
> VISTA", so I checked with my broadcast colleagues on the Radio-Tech
> reflector and not a single person recommended VISTA. One guy called it a
> "trainwreck" and another said it was the worst OS release since Windows
> "Mistake Edition" (ME)! Since the laptop comes with VISTA and since someday
> Microsoft will stop supporting XP, I checked into "downgrading", at least
> for now, until VISTA gets fixed and I found this information about
> "Downgrade Rights" on the MS website:
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/f/4/5f4c83d3-833e-4f11-8cbd-699b0c164182/royaltyoemreferencesheet.pdf
>
> So I ordered the laptop with no OS installed, but with the VISTA DVD shipped
> with it, and I will run on XP Pro until moving to VISTA makes sense. I have
> dozens of ham radio programs that, at this point, don't support VISTA.
Ron, do look into Linux.
Check Ubuntu or Linux Puppy, as both as the most easiest to install and
use. Your learning curve will improve with them and you can then kiss
Microsoft bye.
Also, I just found this website that may interest you and all PC users.
http://badvista.fsf.org/
I too, found Vista to be a joke and dumped it from my laptop BEFORE I
found this website.
Ron, wb1hga
"Got Linux?"
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