Ah, OK -- so this is a research project then. Fair enough.

No, not a research project at all. Just honest, straightforward questions.

Well, research includes honest, straightforward questions.

I've rarely found 'just out, buy it now' arguments compelling. Over
time though the environment changes (better drivers, software which
takes better advantage of the new OS, hardware optimized for the new
OS, that sort of thing). So eventually moving to Vista is likely to be
compelling for Windows users.

I do think Microsoft's plans to 'cycle' OS on a 24 to 30 month time
frame is not going to be that effective. But that is just my opinion
there. In any event, when presented with a 30 month OS cycle, my own
inclination is to skip releases. So I have some clients running
Windows 2000. Sometime next year they may well go to Vista. Clients
who just got new hardware last year are running XP and will likely run
it for three to four years.


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Barry Schnur