[SpamCop-Social] Re: Windows Vista

[Kenneth Brody]

Sylvesterthekat wrote:
> 
> "J. Weaver Jr." <jwjr at poSPAMSUCKSbox.com> wrote in news:e4m18r$hak$1
> @news.spamcop.net:
> 
> > So far, I'm seeing nothing I can't live without that's Vista-only. I was
> > a _very_ late adopter of XP (PVR was my "killer app"), and I'm not in
> > any hurry to upgrade just because "it's newer".  -JW
> >
> 
> only reason we got XP was because it came installed on the new computers we
> bought... the bastards didn't even give us the disk

The spin is "it's on your hard drive, so you don't have to worry about
losing the CD".

At least they come with a utility to let you make your own disk.

Of course, that doesn't do us much good when someone comes in with a dead
system and wants us to reinstall the O/S.  Sure, I have my own XP media,
but it turns out that one OEM's install won't accept a different OEM's
key.  (For example, in order to reinstall XP on a Gateway, you need to
have Gateway's OEM XP media, lest the install tell you "invalid key".)

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