"the wharf rat" <wrat@panix.com> wrote in message
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> In article <u6ihweztIHA.1936@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>,
> Steve Thackery <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>Obviously the marketing machine in Microsoft isn't stupid, and they must
>>have considered this. Does anyone know - or have an opinion - on why
>>Microsoft are forcing their customers to use Vista after next month, even
>>if
>>it makes the customer unhappy?
>>
>
> Because Vista requires that you purchase new hardware and new software
> in addition to the new operating system. That makes Microsoft business
> partners
> and subsidiaries happy. Microsoft is far more concerned with keeping
> those
> entities happy than with anything a customer might think.
>


I am running the same hardware setup that I had for XP..


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