[BC] Vista to XP downgrade

[Sid Schweiger]

>>Just like iBiquity, Microsoft had over five years to get it
right, and yet they still ended up using the general public as
post-release beta testers.<<

Sometimes I think I'd like to buy enough Microsoft stock to where I could go to the stockholders' meetings.  There I could occasionally stand up and shout at the top of my lungs:  "Why do you people insist on fixing things that aren't broken?"

I recently assessed the type of support requests I get lately, versus how it was when I started my present job eight and a half years ago.  When I finally got everyone on XP, virtually all workstation-related support requests disappeared.  Some of my users refuse to reboot, but frequent reboots is something every flavor of Windows has benefitted from, going back to Windows 1.0.  Windows' well-known quirks aside, XP just plain works.  I realize that my thoughts are heretical to the Redmond Money Machine, but that's one person's experiences down in the trenches.  YMMV.




Sid Schweiger
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