I found myself for the last few days having to take a rather forced break from anything that meant any position other than lying flat on my back. It happens every once in awhile for varying lengths of time but makes trying to do any work kind of pointless.

Finally today I managed to hobble my way with coffee in hand to my office desk and the pile of email, unread blogs that awaited me.Not to mention the reworking of TwitBox that needs to be done given the feedback that was littered through my mail and post comments.

I was about halfway through my reading and working on my second cup of coffee when I noticed the first of many posts about the pending expiration of the pre-release versions of Vista. I knew this was coming and had hoped that by that time that I would be able to afford even the Home Professional version; but at over a hundred bucks that isn’t going to happen for me before the dreaded May 31st deadline.

So it looks like I’ll be spending some of my time in May prepping for a return to the world of XP Pro. This means taking care of fun things like backing up all my data (x2 just incase ) and getting new versions of my usual line up of programs. I gotta say though, that even with some of the problems I’ve had with Vista I’ve liked it as an operating system and I will miss it.

For know though it’s time to haul myself back to the couch, rest up for a bit longer and get ready to start my goodbye to Vista countdown.

[tags]Microsoft, Vista, expiration[/tags]

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