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> When I purchased my new 64-bit Gateway machine from Best Buy a month
> and a half ago, I was actually quite intrigued by the prospect of
> trying out Windows Vista. I was determined to approach it with an
> open mind, ignoring all of the nay-saying I'd been hearing for the
> past year or so, and to give it a fair chance.
>
> Well, after six weeks of working with it, including lots of web
> surfing to find out how to turn off all the annoying, intrusive
> "features", and configure it to my liking, after six weeks of
> replacing my critical hardware components (sound card, audio recording
> interface) with 64-bit compatible versions, after six weeks of
> downloading new drivers and new versions of my most important
> programs, all I can say is: What a complete and utter piece of crap!
>
> I'm not going to bother reiterating each specific issue - but
> apparently all of the stability, usability, and compatibility problems
> reported all over the web are completely accurate.
>
> At this moment I'm downloading AN ILLEGAL COPY of XP-64 - If you don't
> like that, Microsoft, too ****ing bad! Refund the money I wasted on
> your bogus new product, make the old one available legally, and then
> maybe I'll buy it.
>
> In the meantime, I'll add my voice to the myriad of others out there
> trying to warn the public about this abomination!
>
> If I weren't so heavily invested in PC software, I'd just switch to
> Linux or a MAC.
>
I bought an HP a couple months ago and totally agree with you. Vista has no
legitimate reason to exist other than to boost microsoft revenues.
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