[BC] Vista to XP downgrade

[SteveOrdinetz]

Sid Schweiger wrote:

>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.


Alas, the mantra of the computer industry is "NEW!!".  Just like the 
auto industry...who needs (or even particularly wants) all the swell 
gadgets and features they're putting in these days?  But if someone 
else has it, you have to as well in order to "remain competitive".