Re: how to get windows vista working?

"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
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Vista RC1 is one sweet OS, my friend. I can't wait for it to go final.

If you don't like MS fine, but at least MS does maintain as much backwards
compatibility as possible, which is more than I can say for how Apple has
treated my Mac software over the years.

That might be true, but I totally disagree with you, Colin. At some point
you have to stop trying to support the lowest common denominator. When I
want to run an old app (my wife has two she still uses, I fire up an old
system and run them. That is maybe once or twice a year.) The same
situation about dropping support is going to happen with the PowerPC Macs.
At some point in the next 4 years, OS X will no longer support the PowerPC
platform. At that point, I will buy an Intel-based Mac and run my PowerPC
G5 using the last supported version of OS X as a second system. I figure by
that time, I will also be able to run Windows-based programs seamlessly
under OS X and on a first rate Mac hardware platform and not the junk most
people run Windows on.

Maybe not supporting those old versions of software and hardware is a good
thing.

Jeff

"Anybody" <anybody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"how to get windows vista working?"

First, buy out Microsoft. Then fire all the "programmers" and hire real
programmers who know what they're doing to re-write Vista from scratch,
preferably with no backwards-compatibility so it doesn't inherit all
the flaws of previous versions of Windoze. MAYBE, just maybe Vista
might work. ;-)




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