Microsoft has taken some new steps with Windows, although they dont necessarily match what the Gartner analysts recommended. For instance, the company recently granted Windows XP Home a reprieve from its June 30 OEM cut-off, saying it would let computer makers install the older, smaller operating system on ultra-cheap laptops through the middle of 2010.

It will also add a hypervisor to Windows -- albeit the server version -- in August, and there are signs that it will launch Windows 7, the follow-on to Vista, late next year rather than early 2010.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/10/Windows-is-collapsing-Gartner-analysts-warn_2.html

Looks like M$ Fista is as popular as a pile of corgi doos on the Queens lawn...

doubt it. because - it works better than XP did at release. Me worked worse than 98.

The problem for Vista is that they shoved in a load of junk and tinsel it didnt need, then advertised it as if it was the best thing since sliced bread. People took them at their word, but they had changed it half way through and chucked out all the best bits.

In many ways its like a zombified XP, except it might be a bit more difficult to kill than the average zombie.

doubt it. because - it works better than XP did at release. Me worked worse than 98.

I doubt it as its now sold by default on pretty much every new pc out there.

ME never was as far as I knew, or at least not to the extent that vista is now. Try and find an XP desktop computer, and you will struggle. Try and find a vista one and youll get one down your local PC World.

All i can do is hope they either scrap the UAC system form windows 7 or scale it back massively so i dont have my screen screwed over and having to click a button for everything i do.

Why does it have to black out the whole screen just to ask me the question, why not just pop the box up. That would be as good and nowhere near as slow and annoying.

All i can do is hope they either scrap the UAC system form windows 7 or scale it back massively so i dont have my screen screwed over and having to click a button for everything i do.

Why does it have to black out the whole screen just to ask me the question, why not just pop the box up. That would be as good and nowhere near as slow and annoying.

you can turn that off..... (first thing i did!)

its in the user accounts bit of the contorl panel

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All i can do is hope they either scrap the UAC system form windows 7 or scale it back massively so i dont have my screen screwed over and having to click a button for everything i do.

Why does it have to black out the whole screen just to ask me the question, why not just pop the box up. That would be as good and nowhere near as slow and annoying.

you can turn that off..... (first thing i did!)

its in the user accounts bit of the contorl panel

I was the one that gave you the info in the thread knighty.

I wish i could but it screws up some software on this machine when it is turned off.

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doubt it. because - it works better than XP did at release. Me worked worse than 98.

I doubt it as its now sold by default on pretty much every new pc out there.

ME never was as far as I knew, or at least not to the extent that vista is now. Try and find an XP desktop computer, and you will struggle. Try and find a vista one and youll get one down your local PC World.

Dell made an announcement this week to still be and more of it offering xp on their desktop machines
All low spec and power cheap notebooks hitting the market are running xp or linux

So youre stating that budget pcs are running linux and xp.

Awesome... walk through your local currys, comet, pc world... have a look at what pcs are running there, have a look at the pcs that the majority of folk are buying.

Yes if you know where to look you can get a pc with XP on it, woo. If youre joe bloggs buying a PC from a store, it will almost always come with vista, unless youre getting some ALDI special.

A few budget pcs running XP does not even begin to touch the numbers of pcs being sold with vista on it.