I run all 3 and wholeheartedly agree.

The problem is, the best approach would have been to offer add-in 
commands/features to address the needs of various market groups (like policy 
enforcement, etc for IT) since one will never suit all. HOWEVER, a few added 
tools/functions doesn't bring in the revenue like churning the users does with 
something they can sell as 'all new'.

We don't need the churn, they do, but we pay for it - in cash one way or 
another and in time spent trying to get back to making it work. If you just use 
MS Office, or just got your first PC, you may never know it, but try to do 
anything more complex or really use the machine as a 'system' and you'll pull 
your hair out! You can back some things out of it - mostly user interface junk, 
but things like services talking to the user is a hard, cold stop that MS said 
they won't relent on.


Bob Axtell wrote:
> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> 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.
> "overtake"? in what way? capabilities? what?
> 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
> 
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