alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> I am just waiting for the day that Olin has to upgrade his PC machines
> and they insist on having Windows 7 to run the peripheral drivers.

Vista and Windows 7 has actually held me back from getting a laptop.  Now
that W7 has been out for a while we got one, and may get another for my use=
..
However that is apparently running a 64 bit version which you can't just
install your own drivers on.

I would have been quite happy if Windows development had stopped with XP an=
d
only continued for bug fixes and adding subsystems for newly invented
hardware.  It seems Vista and Windows 7 are just new versions for the sake
of new versions, since MS makes money when people upgrade, not when they
continue to run the old version.


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