Originally posted by ann_sgcfan
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if other companies offered XP, i'd look into them. but i think dell is hte only one. I'll pay a bit more, but if i buy a cheaper one it'll cost me a couple hundred to track down a copy of XP (if microsoft hasn't recalled them all to try and force people to thier new OS, i hate when they do that) and then spend a few hours wiping one out to install another. so i feel the extra money is worth it to not have to mess with it in the first place.
I used vista once at a meeting that i babysat. people there were logging into thier work e-mail and if they didn't pay attention and told it to remember passwords, i would remember thier work passwords into their work servers....MASSIVE security issues.
It took the HP guys that were sponsoring the booth a day to figure out h ow to wipe out those passwords. microsoft 'hid' how to do that.
that's when i was convinced that i never wanted the POS that vista is.
It's like the OS for the ADHD amongst us (no offense meant towards anyone). Lose the flash, gimme substance. office 2007 is all flash and no substance. I didn't like that stupid 1.5 line default that it is and it took me 2 hours and a call to tech support to figure out how to make it remember what i was telling it to do.
i shouldn't have to fight an OS. and that's what i feel i have to do with vista, fight it to do what I want, not what it thinks i should do
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