I'm totally not surprised. Big businesses are notoriously slow about this - there are distinct advantages to having lots of essentially identical machines all running the same software. And when they've got hundreds or thousands of machines... it's not exactly a minor expense to "upgrade."
Interestingly, I remember seeing something a while back about M$ planning a Vista-based version of Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs - I don't think they DARE do that now. WinFLP has very loose keycode checking - to make it easy for IT staff repurposing/reimaging older machines. If they put out a version of Vista that actually performed decently (but only to their major license clients, as with WinFLP) - it would be SO pirated SO fast it wouldn't even be funny.
And let me ask - IS there a point to M$'s obsession with menus that rearrange themselves? I want items in the same place every time - I don't want the OS second-guessing me and moving stuff around, screwing up my habit of flicking to just there to get to a certain application. Why do I have to keep turning OFF the idiocy known as "Personalized Menus"???
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Interestingly, I remember seeing something a while back about M$ planning a Vista-based version of Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs - I don't think they DARE do that now. WinFLP has very loose keycode checking - to make it easy for IT staff repurposing/reimaging older machines. If they put out a version of Vista that actually performed decently (but only to their major license clients, as with WinFLP) - it would be SO pirated SO fast it wouldn't even be funny.
And let me ask - IS there a point to M$'s obsession with menus that rearrange themselves? I want items in the same place every time - I don't want the OS second-guessing me and moving stuff around, screwing up my habit of flicking to just there to get to a certain application. Why do I have to keep turning OFF the idiocy known as "Personalized Menus"???