How many people on here are using Vista?

Paul Lamar



Not here.  Not even XP.  Heard too much negative about Vista.


Six months after XP came out, I purchased a copy and installed
it. I then installed Oracle 10 on the same machine. The
combination ran **incredibly** slow! Oracle would not un-install
cleanly, so I wiped the entire drive and started all over again.
No improvement. Wiped, re-installed three more times, thinking
that I needed to tweak some setting.  The weekend was almost
gone.  On Sunday night, the phone rang...  It was Microsoft
customer support.  They wanted to know why I had installed XP of
the same installation key 5 times; I must be violating the
licensing agreement. (The installation key gets sent to
Microsoft via Internet during the registration process.) I
unloaded my frustration upon the caller. I wanted to know why
Microsoft and Oracle could not get their act together and make
their very overpriced products work together. He backed down and
we hung up, at least on a civil note.


I wiped XP for the last time and reloaded Windows 2000,
service packs and all. Don't have to register with
Microsoft. All the applications I need run just fine.



Mike