NiX Wrote:It's not that Vista's bad. It's just that it's not that much better than XP. And no matter what MS says, a PC with XP always gets higher benchmark scores than the same PC on Vista.
Really? Even up to now, after Vista SP1? I'd like to see figures please, because I'm really considering this for a laptop purchase (which may well go down months from now, anyway. or tomorrow).
Oh, I was browsing through Google's Usenet archive a while ago. Some interesting stuff (look at the posted dates!):
Emoticons, for the first time.
Apparently, the Y2K bug was being discussed as early as 1985.
First "make money!" chain letter.
Linus Torvalds' announcement of Linux.
The beginnings of Yahoo!
Pretty cool. See more at: http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archi...ce_20.html
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