Grow a brain, idiot. The computer industry does indeed extend past your
bedroom you know. There are greater implications that just running Internet
Explorer and Outlook Express.
I do not run either, you fucking retarded twit.
Believe it or not, some people make entire companies out of writing
software, and more importantly they're NOT called Microsoft.
Oh boy! A lot of them develop on MS tools. A lot of them develop FOR
MS tools. Many work in the Unix/Linux realm. Whoopie fucking doo. That
still does not mean that you know a goddamned thing about what I know
about the industry.
Since you simply don't understand,
Yet another invalid horseshit spew.
I'll try to explain. (listen carefully,
I'm not going to use crayon).
Oh boy! You should have become a comedian! Not! You're an idiot,
Johnny. Your little barbs prove that.
He (the OP) will do what everyone else will do. Downgrade to XP.
I have every windows OS since v3 here, and I still have hardware that
everything runs on. I also have a modern PC, and it runs a modern OS.
That OS, in this case, is Vista, and it runs fine, you fucking retard.
That has nothing to do with Internet Explorer (I do not do the web,
idiot), nor does it have anything to do with outlook express (I do not do
MS mail clients either, idiot).
I also have Alpha, and PPC machines and OSes associated with them.
You have no clue as to what I do or do not know about the computer realm.
You are, in fact, so far behind that you will never catch up.
We're planning to stay with XP for the next few years (2-3 years perhaps?)
Good for you, idiot.
and we're absolutely guaranteed to see the arse end of commercially available
XP very, very soon (if not already).
No shit. It is no longer needed for any of the new PCs being made,
idiot.
We can legally run an earlier version of windows on boxes with Vista
licences here, and WILL do that, regardless of what M$ or you tell us what we
"should" have.
I didn't say a goddamned thing about "what you should have". I think
you have had a lobotomy, however, and you act as if you need Lithium or
Thorazine to supplement the lobotomy.
For the time being, for new boxes, we have limited choices (all are vista
except for a few exceptions), but get our suppliers to do the XP downgrade
where applicable for us.
Yeah, and you are so fucking retarded that you pay them to do it to.
We're buying lots of hardware over the year,
We are buying a few million dollars worth of PCs alone. Our lab
hardware and instrument budget is much higher.
so we have that sort of clout
(as opposed to joe average who buys one unit every few years).
You are Johnny Retard Assumption Queen. You know nothing about me or
anyone else. You have spent your entire life guessing as you go along. In
this case, and as is usual with you... You are wrong.
And where
that's not possible, we install the OS ourselves (though prefer not to due to
time constraints).
You are a pussy as well, I see. It is cheaper to do in house, unless
you are poorly organized as a company. Is your company poorly organized,
boy?
At the end of the day, it's more important to us that we have computers that
actually *work* rather than lots of very inefficient room heaters that make
wirring noises, and have sexy blue lights.
You are not just a pussy. You are also a retard.
ALL of our PCs work.
We have lots of software at this stage that does not work under vista, and
from the initial looks of things will never work, short of an upgrade.
Lag behind the upgrade curve pussies as well, I see.
So, until ALL the software we have has been tested to work under Vista, like
the OP: Vista is not acceptable to us either.
You are not acceptable as an IT admin. I sure hope that is not what
some idiot has you employed to do.