Quote Originally Posted by bionicblond View Post
wow that is a jump... I think it is to force cheap people like myself to purchase better systems in order to use the internet. I mean if I am getting this all correctly, they won't be offering support in 2008 so a person like myself using a system that is unable to make the jump will effectively be shut out.
and you're not alone. There are millions of people out there that will want to upgrade the OS but not the hardware, but will be forced to upgrade the hardware to have the opportunity to upgrade the OS. That's going to create a lot of waste too. Especially on the corporate level.