On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:19:37 -0500, cybercat wrote:

> It's not so bad after all. It is installed on my new business laptop, and is
> fairly straightforward and logical to use. Looking at the system
> requirements, I imagine it might be cumbersome on lighter systems, but with
> a 3.0 ghz processor, 4 gbs of memory and a 250 gb hard drive, it does fine.
>
> (OE is no more, but "Windows Mail" is essentially the same thing--both mail
> and news in the same interface, like OE.)

i have vista home premium (32-bit) on my new (in december) desktop machine,
and i found it very irritating until i turned off User Account Control
(UAC). (yes, i know there are security issues involved). now it now
longer asks for permission before i can scratch my butt. 3gb sdram and
2.66ghz, so it's presumably designed to handle whatever inherent
piggishness vista possesses.

there were a few other tweaks, and at least one program i used to use that
has no version for vista, but i'm reasonably content with it.

your pal,
blake