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Upgrade from Vista to XP for $50 !!

I recently wrote a letter to a magazine editor for an open call to people that have been urged to upgrade to something they did not need or regretted. This is the equivalent to people being “promoted to their level of incompetence” that I learned about in one of my organizational behaviour courses when I was doing my MBA.

I think Microsoft should top your list for this topic. I was perfectly content with Wordstar and Windows 3.1 (This was a Steve Bass inside joke).

But on a serious note, I wish I never went for the Vista upgrade hype. I think Vista was an insider move from an Apple double agent. You have people upgrading to XP (yes upgrading, see links below). I would pay $50 for my notebook and Desktop to be upgraded to XP now.

Brief time on dell. I guess Microsoft had them remove the word “Upgrade” and replaced it with “Downgrade”. Google search showed this type of pages.

 

Anyway, after leaving Apple for 23 years (my first Apple IIe 1983-84, My first IBM compatible 1986), I finally cracked and went to a Mac. Can’t say I am not having withdrawal symptoms, but the withdrawal symptoms are for the XP, definitely not the Vista.

Anyway, I have 5 computers now. I am going crazy. I have an XP desktop (Still hanging on), a Vista desktop (quad processor), A Vista notebook (Hate the OS) so bought a netbook with an XP processor, and of course now the MAC. You cannot get more geeky than that.

Also don’t start me on the browser issues, now I am running browsers like an application, I think this is a trend:

  • – I use IE for business sites (They don’t show well on other browsers) but the IE7 & 8 crash like a *** driver (you fill in the ***).
  • – Chrome for Gmail coz it’s faster, and I like the search from the address bar.
  • – I use Firefox (most stable), I love the addons
  • – Safari & Firefox on the Mac (Safari because it comes up automatically, I override it with firefox)

So I use IE 40% of the time, Chrome 30% of the time and Firefox 60% of the time and it somehow adds up to 100% of the time 🙂

Anyway, that’s my 2 cents worth.

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