Ok Vista beta testers-question ?

[Big Booger]

If you use an old PC then use an old OS - the OS that was designed for that level of hardware. New OSes are designed to accomodate features and abilities of modern hardware and future hardware. I don't see a problem.

New OSes should also be able to accomodate older hardware as well. After all for an OS to be successful it should be installed on as many machines as possible.... To force a customer to upgrade their entire system to suit the OS seems more like Apple than Microsoft.

The problem lies in the millions of old computers that will go into the landfill because they won't run on Windows Vista. If you don't see a problem in that you need to take a visit to one of the "recycling centers" for PC material in China Pakistan, or India...

http://www.greenpeace.org/internatio...y-contaminates

[Curio]

New OSes should also be able to accomodate older hardware as well. After all for an OS to be successful it should be installed on as many machines as possible.... To force a customer to upgrade their entire system to suit the OS seems more like Apple than Microsoft.

The problem lies in the millions of old computers that will go into the landfill because they won't run on Windows Vista. If you don't see a problem in that you need to take a visit to one of the "recycling centers" for PC material in China Pakistan, or India...

http://www.greenpeace.org/internatio...y-contaminates

Oh well we can disagree then. Last time I looked no-one was being forced to run Vista.