Order of the Bath

Eyeing the much delayed but imminent Windows Vista operating system you might think that Windows XP was dead but you would be mistaken. It still has life and Microsoft even has plans for an upgrade. SP3 is currently scheduled for mid 2008 (recently delayed—but MS is synonymous with delay). From the previews I can’t see much that is attractive about Vista from an upgrade point of view. Many of the features seem to be cosmetic for initial impact and first sale. Perhaps when software starts to exploit the underlying features rather than just stick the logo on the box then it may make sense.
Incidentally, I think I would need a new machine by then because this one has already been upgraded rather a lot; same old machine just new motherboard (died), cpu (oomph), memory (twice), ME to XP to SP2, power supply (died), screen (dying) and graphics card (soon). What we call around here a “wheels only upgrade” except that it was done piecemeal.

This entry was posted on 20 Oct 2006 at 11:44 by Rick and is filed under Technical, Windows. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.