>>>>I'm not the only one who believes that WInXP is better than Vista. When you buy PC from Dell you can upgrade from Vista to WinXP for $99.
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>>>Downgrade - I take it
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>>Depends on how you look at it.
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>>It is an older O/S, so in that sense it is a downgrade.
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>>It is a much more useful O/S, and in that case it is an upgrade if you are using Vista.
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>I've had my part of problems adapting to vista - and yes - I've done my part of swearing too
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>But whether I like it or not, I have to - customers are buying vista and my software has to run on it
>Last year I both upgraded from Xp to Vista and from vfp6 to vfp9 at the same time
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>It won't get any easier with the newer OS'es coming after vista

I wouldn't count on that.

Vista has cost Microsoft millions of $$ in bad publicity, damage control, additional advertising, and slow sales.

Microsoft isn't stupid. I'd bet they learn from their mistakes. I'd count on the next desktop O/S being more user friendly and USABLE.