Posted on 08/18/2007 6:28:28 PM PDT by sionnsar
MacNN caught this incredible defection and loss of faith by a former Vista booster, PC Magazine editor-in-chief Jim Louderback, as he steps down from his position.
"I've been a big proponent of the new OS over the past few months, even going so far as loading it onto most of my computers and spending hours tweaking and optimizing it. So why, nine months after launch, am I so frustrated? The litany of what doesn't work and what still frustrates me stretches on endlessly. The upshot is that even after nine months, Vista just ain't cutting it. I definitely gave Microsoft too much of a free pass on this operating system: I expected it to get the kinks worked out more quickly. Boy, was I fooled! If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux."
We at FR are very familiar with the incompetence of journalists, but I would hope that the editor-in-chief of PC magazine "spending hours tweaking and optimizing it" over the course of months would have thought to run such a tool.
Sounds like you’re using some ancient version of Linux. Ubuntu is enough to make most people forget about the msoft world.
What flavor and version? My biggest trouble so far (Kubuntu 7.04) was a Lexmark win-printer that was marginally supported in 6.10 and not in 7.04. Switched to an old HP that had been sitting in the garage, and it works great.
As I noted earlier in this thread, I've played with Linux for many years, but it was only two to three years ago that my main home machine became a Linux box.
“Probably failed to run the Vista Update Tool before he installed the program.”
Well, pray tell, how do you run an update to a program that has not yet been installed?
To be Catholic is to be UNIVERSAL and since the electronic age is upon us, I am interested in the erudite opinions of my Catholic brethren. I hope that meets your approval?
That sucks.
I read down through the comments, gentlemen, and I respectfully submit that you should try a Mac for a hassle free computer. I dropped MS with the second version of Windows 98.
i reinstalled xp and was left with several problems:
1. when the pc boots up an error message and beep alerts me that it could not load jernonce.dll.
there are dozens of registry fix it’s out there and they are scams. uniblu’s registry booster 2 required $ to fix, and i couldn’t get it off my pc for a day or two. finally, i discovered how to close it so that add and remove would remove it.
i’m still stuck with jernonce.dll problema.
2. typing into worthis post is jerky. ds jump all over as in this sentence.
3. no audio on the toolbar.
xp sux.
I was an XP doubter, but I now like XP. Vista is yet an undiscovered country, but I will go there one day, methinks.
Amen to that! I did much the same with the video card I needed to accommodate a new LCD monitor (Xmas gift).
I’ve used every version of Windows since it came out (sans Vista).
Been a Mac user at home for a decade.
I’d never willingly use Windows again.
it doesn’t make a difference what version you use. once you get into any version of linux, the quality of linux applications is lower than what you can get from windows.
It broke your shift key too...
LOL
Good one!
Upgrade your hardware....
It is an adviser program that you download from Microsoft and run it to see if Vista will work on your system.
LOL -- Win98SE became the "gold" standard in this household for many years. It's only in the past year that we're down to one such machine running, because over the years we gave away the rest to folks without the wherewithal to buy machines for themselves.
Alot of new laptops don't support XP - I'm in the market for a new laptop now, and I want it with XP.
Don’t waste your money, I’m in the process of restoring my newly purchased computer back to XP from Vista. Absolutely the worst OS I’ve had to date.
"Why are you pinging for a ping list" sounded redundant so I used the word spam, and clarified that it was for lack of a better word.
Don't get so darn defensive.
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