<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>If there's a free upgrade path to Windows 7, go with that. Hopefully, it'll be for the full version. Supposedly, you can't do a clean install from an upgrade disk.<br><br>I have not tried the release candidate (XP is still trucking along for me), but the gist of the hype is that Windows 7 is what Vista should've been. Vista's DE is as foreign to XP as OS X or KDE/Gnome. There is a learning curve.<br><br><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "dennisjperkins@comcast.net" <dennisjperkins@comcast.net><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> Clue-Tech <clue-tech@cluedenver.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, July 14, 2009 1:19:16 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [clue-tech] Windows question<br></font><br>
<style type="text/css">p {margin:0;}</style><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I'm building a computer for someone and they want Windows. Absolutely no Linux, sorry. I haven't really played with Vista, so I don't know how many issues have been addressed. I'm not sure if I should buy XP or Vista with a free upgrade coupon to Windows 7. Any advice on this?<br></div></div></div></div><br>
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