On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:05:43 GMT, Han wrote:

Our printers are attached to the upstairs desktop. Her XP laptop and my
Vista laptop can easily print to the Brother 5040 monchrome laser or the
Canon pixma whatever color inkjet. No problem, except running upstairs
to change paper and collect the printout. Same for daughter and son and
their Vista laptops. It took a while to get the machines to recognize
the printers on the workgroup in my house ...

It's sort of funny.. Her HP laserjet had to be moved to my XP machine, but our
much older HP "print/scan/fax but not very well" printer works well with vista..

It appears that Micro$oft wants you to buy Office 07 as well as
Vista.
That may be so, but I still like Office 2003 much better, and it works
under Vista Home Basic just fine, so far. Knocking on wood ...

Same with us.. Seems like newer stuff is better sometimes, but usually just
takes more space and resources to do pretty much the same job..

Vista does not really like Office 03.. Go figure!
Huh?

Every time she has a problem with Vista and office, support says "Vista is
designed to run Office 2007"..

Her printing problems only seem to be when she wants to print multi-page files
from Word or Excel..
She just prints them from one of our XP machines now..

OH.. now that we have 2 vista machines, one for home and one for our karaoke
gig, (our karaoke software kicks ass on Vista), Gateway is now offering a
"downgrade" to XP on new machines..


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