Re: XY Under Vista

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Carl Distefano wrote:
> has the VDM changed since NT4? It looks and feels the same to me.
Then why do we have this jerky keystroke syndrome on XP (and I have
it, though to a lesser extent, on W2K)? Some people don't see it, so I
thought there might well be a hardware component, but Robert insists
that everyone has it, some people just don't notice it.
>  Even if MS is counting on an eventual mass upgrade in
> hardware and applications in response to Vista, it would be stupid
> to jettison backward compatibility with existing hardware and apps,
Well, I've heard that some 32-bit Win apps won't run under (or, as you
rightly put it, on) it.
> thereby alienating early adopters and generating a lot of negative
> word-of-mouth. And whatever else MS is, it's not stupid.
Maybe not, but it is as arrogant as Lucifer.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
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