"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message

In article
, Arny
Krueger wrote:
"Keith G" wrote in message

Laurence Payne wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:31:51 +0000, Keith G
wrote:

when I had 3 machines on the go, swapping stuff
between them, the Mac and the XP machine felt faster,
neater and generally less 'encumbered' than the Vista
machine!

You'll like Windows 7 then.


Unlikely - I have no plans to buy it!!

That's like saying that you don't intend to buy a new PC
for the next 5-7 years.

Especially since even if you don't want or use it, most
'PC' sic hardware makers and retailers tend to force
you into paying for it regardless.

Dell has done a good job of maintaining the availability of XP throughout
the Vista catastrophe. HP as well, perhaps. Their corporate clients demanded
it.

So much for the 'free market' sic again. :-)

Windows 7 is going to be sold by the fact that it has the definitive
implementation of both 64 bit hardware support and also virtual machines.
There are enough applications that pretty well tie up a complete 32 bit
address space that multitasking them immediately propels you into 4 GB
RAM, and 64 bits.