[AccessD] Goodbye XP?

"GB instead of MB" ...ssssshhhhh ...no one else will notice, eh :)

William

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Goodbye XP?


> Ditto on this William.
> (Albeit GB instead of MB ;o)
>
> The only worthy thing Vista has done IMO is lower the cost of hardware -
> great for XP users!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman
> Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 12:32 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Goodbye XP?
>
> ...if they don't really "fix" Vista, they'll have no choice but to extend 
> it
> again ...I'm still specing XP for all client systems ...I've installed 
> Vista
> twice now on test systems and wound up removing it both times ...with 2MB 
> of
> ram XP still runs circles around Vista imnshe ...past 4MB it levels out
> ...but for what advantage vs the costs? ...and Access has problems with
> Vista that don't show in XP ...MS has blown this intro big time.
>
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22windows+xp%22%2C+%22windows+vista%22&ctab=
> 0&geo=all&date=all
>
> ...and while Vista sales have bogged down, the latest Mac OS is taking a
> substantially greater portion of the new systems market ...and with Mac OS
> portability to the X86 environment MS may have cut its own throat in
> releasing Vista before it was ready.
>
> ...AND the beta of XP SP3 apparently includes several core Vista features
> ...plus you must believe MS isn't putting an XP SP into beta now if it
> really means to cut XP off in a few months time, eh.
>
>
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