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Blimey, Vista is getting as confusing as Linux.....never a week passes ...without a new flavour.
Frankly I suspect this is to try and cover themselves in profit - if you want to up-grade you will find it expensive, so the hope will be that you pay the extra up-front. However, what Microsoft fails to understand is that most folk don't care about these features - they want a stable bug-free system that works. All anti-virus is unnecessary if the platform is correctly designed. Security flaws occur mainly because Windows wasn't designed with the web in mind (indeed BGates thought it wouldn't catch on!)...hence massive security holes which have lasted to the present.
I fear Viata will be found wanting:- either it will be hugely expensive...or...it will require extra computing power (at a time when processors are being de-rated to save energy!)....and more memory creating World-wide shortages and price hikes.
Bill Gates was never one to save memory use if an old routine could be used. Windows Vista will be the latest incarnation of "Bloat-ware" and it a shame so much time and effort is being put into what is likely to be "more of the same"...will Dos ever be removed, I wonder?
If the same development-effort went into Linux we'd have very stable, bug-free and internat-savvy software at a fraction of the price and with millions of users. Of course it wouldn't make money for Microsoft, so they will try to avoid it. Magazines like Windows as each new fix... creates more readers.
I am still a Windows user, but don't update.
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