[geeks] The Dog's Breakfast: Microsoft Windows Vista

[Phil Stracchino]

Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: "Dan Duncan" <danduncan at gmail.com>
> " 
> " On 5/2/07, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> " > Dell is going back to XP, other vendors say they might follow or are
> " > trying to break their contracts, Dell is shipping Ubuntu systems, etc.
> " 
> " I just bought a new laptop (my first new laptop ever) and booted into Vista
> " long enough to make sure all the hardware was present and working (and
> " what it was) before I wiped it off the drive.
> 
> my gf's son got a new notebook a month or two ago - xp pro.  he wanted
> vista-capable, but doesn't plan to actually 'upgrade'.

I don't particularly want "Vista capable".  "Vista capable" probably
implies hardware DRM support.



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