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by skwerly on Wed Dec 13, 2006 at 01:03:39 PM PDT

"Also, perhaps they wanted to use several copies on test machines to do internal testing before rolling out to the masses."

A reasonable assumption, but why even bother doing so?  What does Vista offer that they don't already get with XP?  Is Vista more secure?  More stable?  Does it support products that XP doesn't?  Is tech support better?  

If the answer is yes to any of those, do the improvements compensate for the expense of weeks or months of testing, installing, debugging, patching, tweaking, sitting on hold, screaming, crying, curling up in a corner, and dealing with DRM technology that insists you have illegal copies even though you're holding a $15,000 receipt?

IT departments the world over have spent years getting their XP boxes working the way they should.  Do people really want to start all over again?  Why?!

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