Windows XP cutoff date inches closer

It's still not clear to my why I should upgrade when my apps are increasingly only on the Net and upgrading to a 1 meg machine just to run Vista is just throwing money out the window.

I actually made the mistake of buying Vista to upgrade my machine. I spent over 40 hours trying to get all the drivers in place. FINALLY - I got it working. Barely. I tried to change to a USB keyboard without success. After a while, I started getting the dreaded blackscreens upon bootup... and they became more and more frequent. (Seems a lot of people had this issue looking on the web). So I finally had to go BACK to Win XP. I am very reticent to try again after that experience. Furthermore, we have one Vista laptop at our work (with 20 computers). Its USB drive does not work (driver problem - since it works fine for iPods! But no Flash drive can load!!), so we can only share files with the laptop by emailing it to ourselves. We have 6 people using Ubuntu right now, and they are mostly happy with it. While there are still compatibility issues with Microsoft programs - we are using Google docs more and more, and this works fine on ANY machine. So... is everyone else doing this, too? As we move all of our files to the web - actually having a Microsoft computer is less important. Vista is accelerating this move for us, and fortunately there is Ubuntu that is ready for us.

Deadline June 14,2009 may affect some businesses, and if serious, all or some users will migrate permanently to other databases as lycos, and others which do work well.,different, and even better.

If I need to upgrade to a new machine I will go with either a MAC or load in LINUX or some other software. I refuse to use VISTA, because of the problems. Just like M.E. (Millenium Edition) VISTA will be useless. Most M.E. users went to Windows 2000 because of all the problems with M.E. Also what about Digital Rights Management? Do they think they own all the computers in existance?

I have refused to install Vista on my PCs after having experimented with 3 different installation. A subpar operating system in my opinion.