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Old 08-24-2008   #10 (permalink)
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Re: How can anything be this bad?

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:13:49 +0100, "Gordon"
<gordonbparker@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>"Fred" <fdwight(ADD1)@cox.net> wrote in message
>newsCA52B91-CD60-45A2-AD9D-42BAD9F4A009@xxxxxx
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>> Gordon,
>>
>> When you paid $5000.00 for a program that has been used for years, and has
>> the exact same functionality today as it did when I bought it, you might
>> begin to understand the frustrations with windows vista.
>>
>
>You paid $5,000 for a DOS program?
>They saw you coming then.....
I might tactfully suggest that you don't have much exposure to
commercial software if you think $5K is a lot for a "program".
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>have you thought of using Microsoft Virtual PC and actually running your DOS
>program on DOS rather than on Vista that has NO DOS AT ALL?
And here you highlight yet another shortcoming of Vista and MS.
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