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exactly what you've been doing - refraining from ever opening it.
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@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude:
@tegronin:
What in the world is wrong with you guys?
Good luck pirating Win7... Pay up or stay out!.
7 hrs and 10 restarts???? Get better hardware do not complain.
My Vista SP1 took 1 reboot. And that's on an 8 yr old P4-2Ghz PC. Yes!, it runs just as fine. I've been running Vista for 2 years, can't complain but for a couple of drivers (sound & modem) the mfg's did not update for 2 months so I realied on MS default drivers with reduced functionality.
Everything has worked fine with ZERO problems from day one.
My 8 yr old PC will become a MS Home server next year and continue working for years to come.
I can only think that the people that had problems with Vista were either, obtuse, MS haters, trolls or just had the worst hardware on the face of the planet.
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What's wrong with me? Buddy you don't have enough time and I don't have enough patience to start that conversation so let's say we just call it a draw and retire to our respective corners, m'kay?
Besides I wasn't the one advocating pirating Win7.
Oh yeah and I didn't get Vista because WinXP Pro/Ubuntu/Tiger are all working just fine for me on their respective computers. It's not that I'm down on Vista, I simply didn't feel any need to upgrade at this time.
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XP was just an update to the previous versions. Windows 95 was a revolution.
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Win2k was really just rather meh, XP was a good jump forward. 95 was a huge leap from Win3.1 though.
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Don't get me wrong -- Windows 7 sounds good. However, comparing it to Vista is a bit like an American automaker comparing their new model to a K-car.
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As an IT back then, Win2k was a godsend especially with integrated Active Directory support, better drivers (anyone remember plugging in a USB device on a 95/98 machine?), large file support, etc.
As far as 95 was a leapfrom from Win3.1, I agree it was a big change. But if anyone remembers OS/2... well, I guess nobody doesn't because I'm just an "early adopter".