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Story: Microsoft: Set your systems for Vista

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Vista, makes me think of WIndows 98, followed by Windows 98 SE, followed by Windows ME.

In other words, promised the world, lost a few promises along the way, still got postponed yet released too quick to market as usual. Will require additional purchase anyway. Will be followed by yet another additional purchase that'll motivate you to purchase the next product line.

And each seperate product version release will require, as time goes by, more and more patches and fixes that'll suck the life out of your hardware resources so you might want to take the recommended hardware specs with a grain of salt times four if you fancy a computer that can take the beating for at least the next two years.

Something else always forgotten yet mandatory. New Microsoft product version releases like Vista, Part 1, will require relearning, replacing hardware parts, repurchasing third party apps, reinstalling third party drivers, reinstalling third party tools, hardware conflicts, driver conflicts, software conflicts, what used to work won't, etc, etc. And with each and every change things will be different somewhere so things will react in other ways that'll require different approaches then used to before, etc, etc. Done? Happy now? OK, here's Vista, Part 2. Restart from scratch.

And still they claim that Open Source is difficult and costly.

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