incrediBILL - 4:47 pm on Oct 26, 2009 (gmt 0)

Oh boy If we can't even convince the webmasters on XP to upgrade

They have no clue how much different it is from XP to Vista/Win 7.

I had to jump through hoops to get my Zen MP3 player working properly on XP, and the Zen software installation conflicted with Yahoo Music (when it was still around) and my entire sound system melted on XP. Took me an hour or more to figure out which drivers got whacked, a real good XP experience.

Same Zen MP3 player, I simply plugged it in on Vista, it knew 1st time, done.

Plugging in my new HTC Hero Android phone the first time was the same experience, easy as pie.

Not that XP was bad with plug 'n play on USB ports, but there were always issues and Vista clearly blows it away.

Amazing how much better an OS can get with 8 years of experience and updates.

I'll make a caveat to my earlier post that if I were buying a new machine today, I'd get Win 7 for sure just to avoid a future upgrade. Since I just bought this Vista box a few months ago, I don't feel the need to suffer through another upgrade until maybe Win 7 SP 1.

FYI, I still have an old PC running XP and an old laptop running Win 2K, they will never get upgraded unless you consider being disposed an upgrade ;)