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I don't remember the specifics, but I do remember that Vista broke a ton of drivers I used for industrial equipment. Serial controllers, that kind of stuff.

If I remember right it had something to do with the transition to driver signing beginning around that era.

So, it represented a lot of labor.

>I was using the Vista Beta of my 2GB-RAM computer for 6 months before release and it was vastly better than XP.

you were blessed to have 2gb in 06. a lot of us didn't. [0]

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