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Old 12-12-2007, 12:55 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I think the caveat is you actually have to use Vista which is bad enough without them monitoring it.
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I think the caveat is you actually have to use Vista which is bad enough without them monitoring it.
You beat me to it.

No thanks. Thus far I see no reason to upgrade.

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No thanks. Thus far I see no reason to upgrade.
Plenty of reasons to upgrade. Course that has nothing to do with Vista.
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It looks like they have two choices, one is automated and one where you actually submit feedback every two weeks. I don't think either would be worth it, I value my privacy and free time too highly.
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I think I'll be happy with XP Service Pack 3 when that comes out for a while...no need for Vista just yet.
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I don't see where you sign up for the free software. I filled out the survey, but it never let me do anything but download the spyware
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How many of the anti-Vista people have used it for more than a few days? I was pretty satisfied with XP, but when I had to reinstall the OS (not XP's fault, my own), I choose to install Vista as it's free for students here in Holland.

Well, I'm not going back to XP. Everything works fine and just as quick (I must say that I spent an hour or so disabling useless services before it ran quickly) as XP, And that's on a very mediocre pc (Pentium M 1.5 GHz, 768mb ram).
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