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FYI: Upgrade from Windows XP to Vista procedure
Here is a link (from Extremetech) for this info. --
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FYI: Upgrade from Windows XP to Vista procedure
RnR wrote:
Here is a link (from Extremetech) for this info. -- http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2082979,00.asp I find this whole Vista business very Shakespearean, i.e., "Much Ado About Nothing". |
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FYI: Upgrade from Windows XP to Vista procedure
"Sparky Spartacus" wrote in message ... RnR wrote: Here is a link (from Extremetech) for this info. -- http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2082979,00.asp I find this whole Vista business very Shakespearean, i.e., "Much Ado About Nothing". But it is so preeetty |
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FYI: Upgrade from Windows XP to Vista procedure
"Sparky Spartacus" wrote in message
... RnR wrote: Here is a link (from Extremetech) for this info. -- http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2082979,00.asp I find this whole Vista business very Shakespearean, i.e., "Much Ado About Nothing". it is. and i think that microsoft is in for a rude awakening because the motivation to upgrade from xp is nothing like that of the motivation there was to upgrade from windows me/98/95. and the greater hardware requirements makes it another reason not to upgrade. sure it will sell on new boxes, particularly since they won't allow future oem sales on xp, but xp will be around for a while. |
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FYI: Upgrade from Windows XP to Vista procedure
"Christopher Muto" wrote in message news:2xMth.11867$o31.2152@trndny04... "Sparky Spartacus" wrote in message ... RnR wrote: Here is a link (from Extremetech) for this info. -- http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2082979,00.asp I find this whole Vista business very Shakespearean, i.e., "Much Ado About Nothing". it is. and i think that microsoft is in for a rude awakening because the motivation to upgrade from xp is nothing like that of the motivation there was to upgrade from windows me/98/95. and the greater hardware requirements makes it another reason not to upgrade. sure it will sell on new boxes, particularly since they won't allow future oem sales on xp, but xp will be around for a while. If people are slow to upgrade I wonder - will microsoft tweak the software to make it run on less powerful machines? |
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FYI: Upgrade from Windows XP to Vista procedure
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below"
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:37:38 -0500, Sparky Spartacus wrote: I find this whole Vista business very Shakespearean, i.e., "Much Ado About Nothing". Hmm... - To be or not to be, that is NOT the question (it _will_ be in a week or so). - "But, soft! What light through yonder window s Vista breaks? It is the east Redmond, and Juliet Bill Gates is the sun $$$$$." And for you, Sparky: - "Now is the winter of our discontent." :-) |
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FYI: Upgrade from Windows XP to Vista procedure
Christopher Muto wrote: "Sparky Spartacus" wrote in message ... RnR wrote: Here is a link (from Extremetech) for this info. -- http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2082979,00.asp I find this whole Vista business very Shakespearean, i.e., "Much Ado About Nothing". it is. and i think that microsoft is in for a rude awakening because the motivation to upgrade from xp is nothing like that of the motivation there was to upgrade from windows me/98/95. and the greater hardware requirements makes it another reason not to upgrade. sure it will sell on new boxes, particularly since they won't allow future oem sales on xp, but xp will be around for a while. How true. When XP was introduced, there was very little motivation amongst the Windows 2000 users to upgrade, in contrast to the users who were running Windows 95/98. Even now, the only new XP units are those that come delivered with it already installed. Nor does there seem any temptation from the current Windows 2000 users to upgrade to Vista. |
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FYI: Upgrade from Windows XP to Vista procedure
journey wrote:
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below" On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:37:38 -0500, Sparky Spartacus wrote: I find this whole Vista business very Shakespearean, i.e., "Much Ado About Nothing". Hmm... - To be or not to be, that is NOT the question (it _will_ be in a week or so). - "But, soft! What light through yonder window s Vista breaks? It is the east west? Redmond, and Juliet Bill Gates is the sun moon? $$$$$." And for you, Sparky: - "Now is the winter of our discontent." Thanks, much appreciated. |
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FYI: Upgrade from Windows XP to Vista procedure
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:32:28 -0500, Sparky Spartacus
wrote: west? ack... you're right. i have an excuse though -- i was sick the week we learned in grade school. i still don't know what the state capital of kalamazoo is ( i missed states and state capitals too ) ;-) |
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FYI: Upgrade from Windows XP to Vista procedure
Compared to the intro of XP, the lunch, er launch, of Vista has an entirely
different mix of computers already out there. When the first crappy version of XP came out, the mix of computers running earlier versions of Windows may have been something like 80% 98, 10% ME (poor buggers), 10% 2000. So 90% of all the computer owners were living with the DOS-based (even ME) product which had pathetic memory management, 512MB memory limitation, and relatively low reliability. Computer owners were motivated to move to XP, a potential solution to a wide range of problems they were having with older versions of Windows. So now Vista comes along and the mix of Windows computers is probably 90% XP and 10% other. In the ensuing years, XP has become a pretty stable and mature platform with respectable memory management, no more DOS underneath, and support for as much memory as most people need. Microsoft is gonna get a comeuppance on this one. The stores that are dumb enough to open at midnight to sell Vista will see one or two people staggering in. The Vista product launch celebrations will be very ho hum, except that the computer journalists will write all about Vista, as they have already. (Once upon a time, computer journalists had the good sense and the high standards to write little or nothing about beta products, which, after all, could change markedly when finally released.) Why? Two reasons, IMHO. First, Microsoft treats computer journalists like the journalists embedded in Iraq, so the journalists have almost a Stockholm syndrome toward their captors, writing largely articles largely sympathetic to Microsoft. Second, the journalists do not have much to write about otherwise. CPU speeds have plateaued, as both Intel and AMD pursue dual-core. LCD monitors are now priced affordably. Most of the software in use is also pretty mature, except maybe for Office 2007, another Microsoft concoction in search of a market. Microsoft will get 99% of its sales of Vista from its inclusion in new systems sold by the name brand vendors. The other 1% (Whoopee!) will be the upgrades. Much Ado About Nothing. Definitely. Just my predictions, unclouded by too many facts. Or, from the ad world of a few years back: "Where's the beef?", the substance that helps me be a more productive person... Ben Myers On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:15:32 -0800, Ghostrider wrote: Christopher Muto wrote: "Sparky Spartacus" wrote in message ... RnR wrote: Here is a link (from Extremetech) for this info. -- http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2082979,00.asp I find this whole Vista business very Shakespearean, i.e., "Much Ado About Nothing". it is. and i think that microsoft is in for a rude awakening because the motivation to upgrade from xp is nothing like that of the motivation there was to upgrade from windows me/98/95. and the greater hardware requirements makes it another reason not to upgrade. sure it will sell on new boxes, particularly since they won't allow future oem sales on xp, but xp will be around for a while. How true. When XP was introduced, there was very little motivation amongst the Windows 2000 users to upgrade, in contrast to the users who were running Windows 95/98. Even now, the only new XP units are those that come delivered with it already installed. Nor does there seem any temptation from the current Windows 2000 users to upgrade to Vista. |
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