By Ina Fried
Published: Tuesday 14 October 2008
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Karen Challinor
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well unless it has a substantially lighter hardware requirement than Vista has and also does things that people literally cannot do without I don't foresee any mad rush to get on board with it
I'm not saying XP is perfect but XP satisfies current requirements, no one besides Microsoft actually needs a new version of windows
the only things that will prise the majority of people away from earlier versions of windows are hardware incompatability issues when replacing failed equipment or the bundling of the latest OS on a new PC
I doubt this particular revenue stream will be sufficient for Microsoft though
well unless it has a substantially lighter hardwar...
Karen Challinor
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