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This is a good thing. Far too many people are sticking with hardware they by all rights should have tossed out the window years ago.

Shouldn't that be their decision? All most people want with a PC is web browsing, e-mail, and word processing. Who needs the latest hardware for that? One of the great things about both Linux and BSD is that you can use it to make even older machines pretty usable.

61 posted on 01/28/2007 6:43:37 PM PST by Señor Zorro ("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)

All most people want with a PC is web browsing, e-mail, and word processing. Who needs the latest hardware for that?

That's my point. If all most people need is to browse the web and write/read email, then their current machines are fine. Why, then, should Microsoft shackle Vista with the design goal of making sure it runs on those computers running Pentium IIIs and 128 MB of RAM? It makes no sense to do that if the point of your project is to implement OS-wide improvements that could really benefit from new hardware.