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In response to Mark Jay,

Mark, first let me say that I read every word and my hat is off to you for your thorough thought pattern. I agree, truly, with everything you have said. And, I have strategically planned my move to Vista along with our company migrating our servers and citrix client migration to Vista. This was to take place in June or July.

But you have left out one major contributing factor that – and I am not talking down to you, Mark – you may well not be aware of:

                ** Microsoft is discontinuing Vista because of the internal core issues and is going to release Windows 7!! **

I read up on this the other day and was in shock. I called our top IT guy at our company and he, as a Microsoft certified and trained individual, said what I have heard is 100% true. He further said that they have scratched all plans for Vista and we are going to stay with Windows XP as a base until they release Windows 7.

I even asked him, Mark, if I should upgrade to Vista in the mean time and although he would most likely agree with you on all points, and he is running a Vista station over there testing things and for his personal stuff, he told me without question to not spend one dollar on Vista as it will be completely defunct shortly. And I believe him and the articles that I read.

So, I don’t know if we should be having the discussion about whether Vista is bug free, or if it is okay or what. The point here is that Microsoft has hit a dead end with Vista and have realized the huge “boat anchor” they just created that is using system resources to the max and have publicly declared that it is a boat anchor and that they have to shut it down. The last article I read was truly eye opening, and I cannot recall the facts. But they said something like this:  the “core” that makes Vista work uses some 3-4 Gb of Ram to utilize its processor and I think it was about 5000 separate files and .dlls and such. The new Windows 7 uses about 500 Mb of memory and about 250 files.

Now, please don’t shoot me if you are out there and have the exact statistics. I am going on memory here and these may be slightly off, but they are close. The point this Microsoft guy was making is that Windows 7 will operate on about 5% of the files and use a very SMALL fraction of memory and system resources to run. They went into a lot of technical stuff about the core, but that was over my precious head.

Anyway, in closing we should just simply let everyone ask this question:  do I NEED to upgrade my computer to Vista for any particular reason?  If one does NOT, then they should just hang in there with XP Pro and forget Vista every dropped by for a visit, because it is going to be gone just like Windows Millenium/2000 was and it sounds like soon.

I feel horrible for the people that ran out and bought Vista on a new computer, but from what I read they will be 100% able to install Windows 7 on their computer and, based on the techie guys stats, they will have a KILLER system since the system resources will be far greater than they truly need to run the new O/S. But as for me, I won’t upgrade now. I will just enjoy my flawless XP until that comes out next year. If I lose a computer for some reason, I will just re-install XP on it.

I hope this helps others out there who are not aware of what happened down at Microsoft.

Mark

Mark Claessens, e-Pro, NHSS
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