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mmarsh · April 30th, 2007

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Actually its normal. MS normal development cycle is a new operating system every 2-3 years, (Apple is every year, Linux Ubuntu every 10 Months) thats the way it always was until XP. The reason we had a 5 year gap was because the initial design for LONGHORN was too ambitious and all the new 'revolutionary' features were removed one by one because they simply didn't work. I think the new version of windows will incorperate features like WinFS that were axed in VISTA.

Wifiry and Biggerboy

Dont rule out VISTA, its not that bad. I use it. The biggest problem with VISTA was drivers, (and that wasn't really MS fault) this has been mostly resolved. The only remaining issue is incompatible with certain older programs, and XP certainly had its share of those when it came out.

You can stay when XP for now, but eventually you will have to upgrade if you want to stay current in thew windows enviroment.

April 30th, 2007
mmarsh Kilobyte Posts: 239 Country: Microchips: 783 Gadgets	Tater Actually its normal. MS normal development cycle is a new operating system every 2-3 years, (Apple is every year, Linux Ubuntu every 10 Months) thats the way it always was until XP. The reason we had a 5 year gap was because the initial design for LONGHORN was too ambitious and all the new 'revolutionary' features were removed one by one because they simply didn't work. I think the new version of windows will incorperate features like WinFS that were axed in VISTA. Wifiry and Biggerboy Dont rule out VISTA, its not that bad. I use it. The biggest problem with VISTA was drivers, (and that wasn't really MS fault) this has been mostly resolved. The only remaining issue is incompatible with certain older programs, and XP certainly had its share of those when it came out. You can stay when XP for now, but eventually you will have to upgrade if you want to stay current in thew windows enviroment.