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Old Oct 3, 2008 | 10:18 pm
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Originally Posted by piper28
In my university department, we still strongly recommend people not get Vista and get XP instead, to the point that we'll even reformat a machine that comes with Vista to XP unless the person has a compelling reason to want Vista.
The IT guys where I work categorically will not support Vista.

But what it really comes down to is I'm not overly convinced there's any compelling advantage to "upgrade" to Vista.
Yeah. The only reason I would remotely consider it is for 64 bits. XP64 is out of the question due to the lack of certain critical drivers.
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