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Revisiting the Original Reviews of Windows Vista

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the take-with-a-grain-of-salt dept.

harrymcc writes 'We now know that a remarkable percentage of consumers and businesses decided to spurn Windows Vista and stay with XP. But did the reviews of Vista serve as an early warning that it had major problems? I looked back at the evaluations in nine major publications and found that they expressed some caution--but on the whole, they were far from scathing. Some were downright enthusiastic.'

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  1. Re:OS Change by John+Hasler · · Score: 1, Troll

    > When I'm using my computer, I don't want to spend time fiddling with the OS
    > and desktop environment.

    Neither do I. That's one of the reasons I use Linux. It just works.

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