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While I am a big fan of Vista and find it frustrating when I have to use a system running XP I still feel that forcing people onto Vista is not the way forward. Users should have the choice.
However, from a developer point of view the sooner we get rid of XP the sooner we can get rid of wretched Internet Explorer 6 which is holding back developers using features it doesn't support or wasting hours on recoding or adding hacks to get round IE6 bugs.
I did participate in the Vista Beta programme and have since purchased a laptop with Vista installed. The laptop should be an adequate specification and I also doubled the memory but it makes very heavy weather of many routine tasks, in other words it runs much too slowly.
Notwithstanding the eye candy and additional features I have decided to downgrade to XP for a more responsive performance.
My other objection is that Vista forces otherwise unecessary upgrades to both software and hardware, introduces compatibility problems and as a result is wasteful and environmentally unfriendly.
Since we must move on at some point in time, I believe Microsoft should sell XP and Vista concurrently for some considerable time to allow a natural progression, similarly for Office products.
