When I recently built a new PC, I went back and forth about installing Vista. I doubt that there's anything wrong with it. When 95, 98, and XP came out, I remember people complaining that MS had finally gone too far and shafted PC users. Six months later, the same people had upgraded and weren't looking back. I'm sure this is exactly what MS was thinking when they did Mojave - a brilliant lesson for consumers that, like too many lessons, will go largely unlearned. Not that I'm an MS fanboy, but I want to give credit where it's due.

I held onto 98 for a long time, because the online talk about XP's activation led me to believe it was something to be concerned about. When I got a new piece of hardware that 98 didn't support, I finally bought an XP upgrade and soon saw that those concerns were unfounded. Now when I reinstall, those few minutes with 98 before installing the XP upgrade are like driving a Ford Pinto. If I were to buy Vista, in a few weeks the gap between it and XP might start feeling similar. But for the moment, I don't know what I might be missing and don't feel like I'm missing anything. So for now, I'll keep running XP. As was the case with XP, must-have hardware or software will probably come along and nudge me to Vista.

For a long time, one of my complaints about Windows was that new versions almost always required upgraded hardware. It seemed like MS and the hardware giants were conspiring to gouge consumers. I've since reconsidered. Hardware of the same physical size or smaller is faster and more powerful, but prices are still reasonable. We're also seeing more energy-efficient hardware. The advances have been as useful as they've been breathtaking. Windows upgrades have been a large part of that.

I still have concerns about Windows' security and privacy. Whether Vista would be any worse in this regard, I have no idea. Overall, I highly doubt MS is collecting info behind our backs for some nefarious purpose. There are a lot of very bright IT people who would have surely caught such activity.

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