I'm with you. Mind you I'm always at least a year behind, wanting all the
bugs to be ironed out before I touch an "update". I'm perfectly happy with
XP - see no reason to change. I'm still on SP2. My husband is still on
Windows 2000 - and I think I'm a Luddite!

--
Jo



"Michael Fesser" <netizen@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> .oO(kim)
>
>>I wonder how many of you running XP after July 08? From what I read MS
>>drops support for XP after the above date. So what are you guys doing...
>>upgrading or continue to run XP
>
> I'll definitely stay with XP. Vista still has too many unfixed bugs,
> annoying problems and way too high hardware requirements for almost
> nothing. And I simply don't like it, especially all those stupid
> restrictions in the cheaper versions. To get all the really useful
> features which were often already built-in in 2000 and XP you have to
> spend even more money and upgrade to one of the other two dozen
> available versions ... stupid. Userfriendliness is something else.
>
> XP on the other hand simply does what it's supposed to do and it does it
> quite well. It runs stable and reliable even on an old P3 machine. What
> want I more?
>
> And if MS drops the support - I don't really care. Even now my system is
> not fully patched (I'm still on SP2), simply because I don't have that
> much of a need for that. My workstation is not directly connected to the
> Internet, there's a router with packet filter in between. Additionally I
> don't use IE and OE, which are still the biggest security holes.
>
> Micha