Hi Jupiter,

I had heard bad things about Vista, and I planned to wait until Microsoft
issued a service pack before getting a new computer. But I needed a laptop
and couldn’t find one with XP on it, because they all had Vista. So I got
Vista.

But I doubt that Microsoft will fix a lot of the things I find obnoxious
about Vista. I don’t think they’ll change the silly folders that look as
though they’ll spill their contents. I doubt that they’ll fix the view you
get when you open Windows Explorer, even though the Vista version is awkward
and harder to use. I hope, but I’m skeptical about the prospects that
they’ll fix the design mistakes that make it nearly impossible to share files
and printers between computers running Vista and computers running XP on a
wireless network. I’m certain they won’t change things to allow me to remove
programs like the ones I listed in my first post from my system, where they
use up disk space.

Vista is certainly different from XP, but it is certainly not better.

I didn’t want Office 2007, either, but I needed it for compatibility
reasons. When I started using it I found, again, change for the sake of
change. Outlook and Word are harder to use, with a more complex menu system
that hides many of the functions I used to use.

This is hardly the place for a technical evaluation of Vista and Office
2007, and I must admit that I’m not qualified to provide one anyway. I’m
simply a user who is confronted with change that accomplishes nothing and
makes my life more difficult.

I wish my laptop were running XP. I wish I didn’t need to read and create
files with a docx extension. (“docx,” by the way is not included in the
Office 2007 dictionary, so gives you an error if you use it.)

Have I answered your question?

Barney


"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote:
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> Why did you purchase Windows Vista and Office 2007?
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> "Barney Bornn" <BarneyBornn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> > Every time I use Vista it becomes more obvious: Microsoft did not
> > improve
> > the operating system, they merely changed it. And as is so often
> > the case
> > change for the sake of change is counterproductive.
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> > The same is true of Office 2007.
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> > Barney[/color]
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