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I was perusing the latest barrage of tips from Lifehacker today and I realized something.  Once or twice a day Lifehacker has some tidbit about Windows Vista, and I completely glaze over it.  I have distanced myself so far from Vista that I don’t even care about tips and news for the OS.  I can officially say I have never used, nor do I plan to ever use, the new OS.

That got me thinking.  Can I actually make it the rest of my life without using Vista?  I think the answer is yes.   I have a tower in my office that still has XP on it, but its just waiting for a motherboard upgrade for an excuse to become a Linux box.  (I’m not going Linux until I go 64bit)

When I say I’ve never used it, I mean I’ve never sat at a keyboard where the OS was installed, and I’ve never even sat through a demo of its features.  I think its fair to say I simply don’t care about the OS.  So will the day come when I’m using it at work?

Secretly I’m holding onto the idea that everyone will be using a Mac by the time that XP goes on the de-support list, but the truth is that won”t happen.  So will Vista become the OS of choice when XP is dropped, or will XP just continue to live on?  Personally I hope it survives.  It is afterall a pasable OS.  It functions reasonably well, doesn’t crash, and is (at least in my view) reasonably secure if you don’t go clicking on ads for porn and pills.  So maybe It’ll just stick around on extended support contracts for the next 20 years…IBM has managed to build an entire business on 30 year old mainframe support contracts because their stuff just works, so why can’t MS do the same?  They just might have to if Vista keeps turning out the sales numbers it has been.