Lots of people in the office use Vista with no issues. I'm sure the issues will smooth themselves out. I haven't upgraded to Vista at work because I haven't wanted to take the time. At home, I don't have any reason to spend the money to upgrade my OS that just gets used for some work stuff and the occasional game. I use Kubuntu for everything else.

I think the biggest problem with Vista is that there just isn't a good reason for people with XP to upgrade. Why spend money and risk breaking anything when XP is working fine?

I'd be curious to see the sales figures of MacOS vs Vista. That would be interesting.

I think OS/X people are more likely to upgrade the OS on existing hardware while Windows people are more likely to upgrade by buying a new computer. When you can get a new desktop for as little as $250 I can't say that's a bad way to upgrade.

I'd be curious to see how OS/X would do if it wasn't tied to Apple hardware, Hackintoshes aside.

Why spend money and risk breaking anything when XP is working fine?

See-through windows!

I agree that "must abandon" is way over the top; on the other hand, the decision to keep XP on the shelves seems kind of telling: [link]

I'm (hopefully) about to take possession of a new system next week. It'll have more than enough grunt to run Vista but I have no inclination to even try out the new OS--even though I have access to it, thanks to the new part-time temporary job at the school.

So far, Vista hasn't been a problem for me, except that it doesn't seem to be able to talk to my HP Photosmart 3180 printer.

Another editorial about the relative failure of Vista in the marketplace: [link]

At the same time, Enderle, an analyst who counts Microsoft as a customer, said, "Vista adoption is well below where I thought it would be by now...Corporations aren't even close to being ready for Vista, and many of us have been expecting this move. The biggest issue is that most don't seem to see the value in the product. Right now the majority of the comments I'm getting would indicate the people [who] don't want Vista right now are in the majority."

Enderle, mind you, is about as pro-Microsoft an analyst there is in the business today. If he's saying that people don't want Vista, and the OEMs, which at the end of the day are all about selling units, don't want to sell it, the only conclusion you can come to is that Vista is failing to win the market.

Just because Enderle is pro-Microsoft doesn't mean he's more right about them than anything else. He's full of shit.

At my company, I just had my Win2K PC replaced with one running XP a couple of weeks ago.

Just because Enderle is pro-Microsoft doesn't mean he's more right about them than anything else. He's full of shit.

I think you may have misread what he said. I know I did first time through, because that last sentence in the first paragraph is very badly worded. He's saying the majority of business customers DON'T want Vista.

I'm not sure where to look, would someone point me in the direction of free excel templates? I really want to have a monthly expenses planner where I can plug in expenses, paychecks, and see what's leftover, with a sheet for each month.

I've googled, become confused, and so thought it more likely that someone here would know just where to go.

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I found the above link, but it is Office 2007.