Review by G. E. Williams

What are the guys at Microsoft Thinking???nWindows 3.1, a bad imitation of Mac, Windows 95… better, but still no Mac, Windows ME too bad to review, XP okay give or take the constant patching, a usable operating system, which is user friendly and reasonably trouble free, give or take security vulnerabilities.

Windows Vista, (which was the only option available with my newest laptop), is constantly crashing, will not run any software not specifically designed for it, including software I bought after the computer, for example Print Shop Deluxe (which made my DVD drive disappear to the computer, and I had to get tech support to find it again) and School House Fonts, both of which I need to use all the time when doing work for my wife’s Kindergarten class (the reason I got this lap-top for in the first place was to do this kind of work in our room rather than going to one of our Desk Top PC’s) , and including some that stated they were compatible, for Example Roxio 9 deluxe . The wireless connection is constantly fritzing out, and it won’t network with our XP PC’s, or TiVo.

Hopefully, the near universal disappointment with this version of Windows will result in a miraculous patch to resolve the issues, and the Next version will actually be an improvement.

My advice is hang onto your XP as long as you can, unless you are changing all of your computers at the same time, and in that case, maybe look at Apple, for me neither option was feasible, but such is life.

I hope you have better luck!