I just bought a new (used) laptop from a gentleman on Ebay who indicated he could supply it with either Vista or XP. I said please give me XP because I have two others operating on XP, and things are going reasonably well. Plus, I thought it might be nice to keep them all the same.
A little research lead me to the conclusion that Vista was just another way for Microsoft to suck in new money and make old systems obsolete eventually. And many of the new computers it was being installed on didn't really have the specs to fully appreciate all the extras of Vista...so eventually one would have to upgrade their computer's capacity...sort of a self-serving salesjob by both Microsoft and the computer manufactures.
I even resisted downloading SP #2 for the longest time as I had heard it could create problems with some peripherals. In fact not long after I downloaded SP2 my Netgear WG511T wireless card stopped operating. When I visited this site, I was informed about this failure to connect after installing a certain 'hotfix' offered up by Microsoft:
http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101214.asp
...problem is I can't find that 'particular hotfix' on my computer per the instructions provide?? As I said, I'm a computer illerate. It appears as though the wireless card has been 'damaged' by the Microsoft software??
