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Re: XY, Vista, choices
- Subject: Re: XY, Vista, choices
- From: Si Wright xywrite4@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:52:04 -0800 (PST)
As Patricia pointed out, you can never count on legacy drivers. That's how M$ eventually forces everyone to "upgrade"--hardware manufacturers don't waste time on backwards compatibility. My current case in point is my 800 MhZ Fujitsu P1120. Bet it would just zoom along on Win98SE rather than the factory-installed Win XP that it can barely carry. But the oldest drivers--for essentials like video card, sound card, mouse pointer--are Win2k. And frankly, I'm surprised those even exist.
I'm sticking with XP as long as I can because from what I've seen on every forum regarding software that I use, Vista is so security-crazed that it would prefer not to run anything at all. It also has serious digital-rights restrictions on media built in at a lower level than XP. If you're doing anything with audio or video editing, XP is widely considered a better choice.
Jon Pareles
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