On 17/11/11 1:47 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
  On 17 Nov 2011 at 1:12, Dave McGuire wrote:
      That seemed to have been the job of Windows
Vista; fortunately it
 was short-lived so many of our machines survived! ;) 
 I think I was looking at a Dell ad the other day for its business
 desktop PCs.  They seemed to think it was wirth bragging about that
 their offerings would have a life cycle of 20 months. 
Everything is backwards. :(
But it does expose their profit engine: Making you throw working things
away as soon as possible.
--Toby
 When I started in this business, it took almost that long to get a
 system after placing the order for it.
 --Chuck