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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warp [mailto:war### [at] tag povray org]
> Btw, Microsoft is publishing the next version of Windows in mid-2009.
> So in a way you will be able to use Vista for less than a year before
> it becomes more or less obsoleted by Windows 7. Then you'll have to
pay
> even more money to keep up-to-date.
Academic discounts save you money! Besides, I'll probably wait until
2010 to buy Windows 7.
> (I'm really surprised by Microsoft's timing in this. Windows users
as
> a whole are not even close to migrating to Vista, and they already are
> publishing a new version of Windows. If anything, that will give
people
> even less motivation to buy Vista. Why buy Vista now, when you can
just
> perfectly use XP, and if you want to upgrade, just wait for a year and
> you'll get something even newer than Vista?)
AFAIK, they accelerated development on Windows 7 *because* people aren't
buying Vista.
Faced with complaints about Vista, they had two options to respond with:
1) Fine, we'll continue to sell you XP for *less* than Vista.
2) Wait another year, and we'll sell you W7 for *more* than Vista.
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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