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Originally Posted by j.p.s
I'm sorry, but if they had all tose major problems and that was how they chose to spend their time, that was not the least of it.
My point was that they fiddled while vista burned.
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Save that Vista didn't burn.
Bear in mind that most folks don't upgrade Windows in place. They get Windows because it comes pre-installed on the PC. They upgrade to a new version of Windows when they get a whole new machine that has the new version pre-installed.
Vista got a
lot of (justified) complaints, but machines running it sold. It wasn't so bad it
prevented people from upgrading so they wouldn't have to deal with it.
I avoided Vista, but I'm someone who
did upgrade Windows in place. I avoided Vista largely because I wasn't ready to to do the significant upgrade on my hardware that Vista would have required. I was still using a 32 bit architecture, and XP still fit my needs.
I recently moved to a 64 bit machine that has Win 7 Pro installed, but avoided Win 8.1, and the fact it had Win 7 Pro instead of Win 8 was a purchase factor.
It will be curious to see how this will affect Win 10. How many people will be in the market to get a new machine that will come with Win 10 when it hits general release? MS may hope for a lot more upgrades-in-place than Windows has historically gotten.
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Dennis