17

What significance does the number seventeen have? It’s the number of computers I’ve downgraded from Windows Vista to Windows XP for my customers.

I ran a benchmark utility (Geekbench) on one of them before downgrading, there was a 250 point difference between Vista and XP (in favor of XP). Ouch.

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Posted in Aaron Nelsen, Microsoft by Aaron Nelsen at November 20th, 2007.

3 Responses to “17”

  1. Fred Smith says:
    November 20, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    Yeah, that sounds about right.

    I think I had about a 200 point shift in my geekbench score when I downgraded on the laptop. By the way, Jared D loves Vista. Yeah, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be his friend anymore. :P

  2. Aaron Nelsen says:
    November 20, 2007 at 3:08 pm

    He’s also obsessed with his Zune…

  3. 149 | Hijinks Inc. says:
    June 17, 2008 at 2:32 am

    [...] in November I wrote that I’d downgraded 17 Vista machines to XP, well I’m happy to report that roughly [...]

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