[cpforlife.org]

LOL—Bought my first PC in 97 or 98, but I remember early 80’s a friends house w a big TRS80 set up and a gillion cassettes.

We’ve come a looong way, though I hear Vista is still a nightmare of sorts.

[BJungNan]

We’ve come a looong way, though I hear Vista is still a nightmare of sorts.

It was a long way from the TRS80 (RadioShack early computer) to the perfection of a computer system simple enough to for all levels of household users to operate. That was accomplished with XP. Vista is an attempt to milk acheived perfection for additonal profits.

In other words, Vista was not necessary.