Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 10:19 PM, Bob Axtell wrote: > >> This application developer has summed up Vista very well... >> >> http://www.jsware.net/jsware/ditips.php3#vist >> >> > > That is quite biased and not true from my personal experiences. > Calling Vista "At JSWare we consider Windows Vista to be bloated, > overpriced, restrictive, DRM-infested spyware" is not justified at all. > > Not from where I look at it. I was offered a Vista laptop. I refused it after examining another one closely for a few days. > Wait a bit longer and Vista will overtake XP. Do not forget > Vista SP1 will be out next year. And XP was not popular > initially. Only after XP SP1, XP became popular. > "overtake"? in what way? capabilities? what? > Power users can still do powerful things. And Vista protects > novice users better. Under the hood, Vista has also many > improvement over XP. And XP is a vast improvement over > Windows 98SE for home users and business users. > XP was not supposed to be an improvement over Win98, it was supposed to be an improvement over Win2K. It most certainly was NOT. Win2K remains the pinnacle of Microsoft capabilities. Before and after Win2K is simply downhill. --Bob A > Xiaofan > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist