Hate Vista

I knew it would be you, Bet.

Awww, StePH. people usually smile when I come into the room.

Richard, you have me so beat both in hardware and software that beating you to the gloat is about all I have right now...

Yeah, but that's just because of money. I don't have to worry about things like cars right now. I don't mind if you get the gloat anyway. I've been around the "My OS is better than yours, so that makes me a smarter person, whatever, blah, blah, woof, woof" WAY too many times in my life. I'm actually quite a rarity. An IT type that likes his software and hardware...*

Apple has it's fair share of BS, too. This whole sprawling Apple/Iphone/Itunes/Genius thing gets on my nerves. It's still remembering that Beyonce CD I bought Becca, and suggests that I need to buy some pretty unlikely stuff.

*Except when it talks to me. It always picks the wrong time to speak. I doubt seriously that "Microsoft Office 2008 needs my attention" at 4am.

I knew it would be you, Bet.

Awww, StePH. people usually smile when I come into the room.

Richard, you have me so beat both in hardware and software that beating you to the gloat is about all I have right now...

What this thread needs is some gloat hobbles.

is even happier with XP than Neco is with Win7, tho' I still paid for it :P And I remember before DOS and PC-DOS and AmigaDOS there was BBC-DOS :D

1632 [0532GMT, 2232PST] Wed. 4 Nov 09

and before DOS there was CPM

CPM, in the ancient days of steam computin' ;)

Hkkt 1623 [0523GMT, 2123PST] Fr 6 Nov 2009

I think I may even have some punch-card decks in a shoe-box somewhere


aaah! those down-on-the-bare-metal days.

Operating system? luxury!

But you don't ever have to play with it, since you like XP so much. ;)

Meanwhile, I'll enjoy my lovely new compy and Windows 7. Which isn't bad. I like it's new features, and the fact that it's FREAKING LIGHTNING FAST... course, the slowness may have just been the old comp getting tired...

so quick in fast that the as'ei have gone past you quite a number of times

A fresh install of windows almost always is faster (except with Vista), which is why a from-scratch re-install, even of XP, sometimes helps. And explains the existence of the plethora of 3rd-party optimization software, so many places in windows where crud accumulates and bogs things down: in the registry, on the hard drive, in the installation logs, etc.

Both my adult children were "early users" of Windows 7. My son had a Linux version on his laptop before 7. He hated Vista with a passion. Both now are very pleased with 7 (both have at least four months on the operating system). Both are still impressed with the speed and usability and general lack of problems. I can't say I love Windows, but because I have to remain compatible with my work computer I will need to stay in the Microsoft area (although a separate boot partition is desirable on my home computer). I respect the members on this site who for various reasons advocate other operating systems. If you must keep Windows on your computer (for compatibility/incompatibility reasons) I recommend upgrading to 7 in the near future rather than getting stuck with Vista. I just wish my work site would upgrade from Vista to 7 sooner rather than later.