RE: Home businesses and older computers? (take II)

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

If you need Vista *only* so you can update Vista, then you don't need
Vista.

Hasta la Vista,

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Hart
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:35 AM
> To: TECHWR-L List; Dan Goldstein
> Subject: Home businesses and older computers? (take II)
> 
> Dan Goldstein was confused by my statement that "We mostly 
> boot into Vista [for our dual-boot computer] only to apply 
> Windows updates and download new virus/antispyware/firewall 
> updates...": <<What updates and downloads *can't* be 
> downloaded into Win XP? We use it for everything right now -- 
> MS updates, daily virus definitions, spyware updates, etc.>>
> 
> My bad for not being clear: We boot Vista so we can update 
> Vista and the associated software. We rarely boot Vista to 
> actually use it for anything other than to ensure that Vista 
> itself is up to date.  
> Needless to say, we keep XP patched to the gills every time 
> we boot XP.
> 

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