What Operating System Should I Use
So I had an interesting question asked of me today. My boss’ brother-in-law bought a new Dell and they asked me simply “What operating system should I use?” Wow, this can be a loaded question. My immediate reaction was to tell him to return it and get a Mac, but instead I held back, thought about it for a few minutes, and then told him to stick with Vista (as opposed to uninstalling Vista and replacing it with XP).
Why did I tell him this? Well, there are a few reasons. First, the scheduled defragmentation could be a good thing in that I’ve had to help him regularly with issues where a simple cleanup and defrag really helped the situation. Second, he will probably keep that computer for at least 5 years and although Microsoft is supposed to update XP for at least that long over time it goes with out saying that Vista support will last longer. Finally, he’s using this computer for browsing the web and other simple tasks such as word processing. As newer browsers and related technologies. For this Vista will do his job without a problem and that really is the bottom line.
So what do you think? Did I point him in the right direction?
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