[MayflowerMadam]

If Gates were smart, he’d haul out good ol’ XP and slap a “Windows 12” sticker on it and everybody would be happy. One of our systems has Vista, which sucks. Two others have Win 7. I’m holding on to the XP system like grim death.

Of course, if Gates were smart, at the outset he’d have picked up WordPerfect instead of Word to include in the Office bundles.

[ArrogantBustard]

I don't agree. Win7 64 bit is a much more solid and refined product than Win XP 64 bit ever hoped to be. Furthermore, Win 8 is built on a very solid server operating system ... possibly even better (faster, more efficient) than Win 7.

The problem with Win 8 is that execrable, ugly, annoying, never-to-be-sufficiently-damned touch-screen based user interface. The more MS does to make that go away, and the easier MS makes it for those of us who don't want "Metro" to get rid of "Metro", the better MS's chances of seeing Win 8 be accepted by corporate users and content creators.

[SmokingJoe]

If Gates were smart, he’d haul out good ol’ XP and slap a “Windows 12” sticker on it and everybody would be happy

The Luddites say, "HELLO!"

Of course, if Gates were smart, at the outset he’d have picked up WordPerfect instead of Word to include in the Office bundles.

He is only the richest man in America, Has been for over 15 years. Of course he is not smart. Not at all. /sarc