VISTA HAS PROBLEMS??!!!!
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LOL! Look s like MS thinks this is merely a PR problem.
No thanks Vista.
An example of how massive arrogance impacts attitude toward customer satisfaction....MS has ALWAYS had a problem there.
It’s betamax all over again.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Amazing, WFW 3.11 is still my office setup...
Amazing, WFW 3.11 is still my office setup...
She also admitted to a newfound respect for OS X, having just purchased a Mac for herself.
Of course, I built a completely new PC with a genuine Intel 'Bad Axe 2' motherboard and Core2 Duo CPU with more RAM than Vista x32 can even address...
I find it disgusting that so many of my periferals are not supported under Vista. The OS upgrade cycle seems to be a scam to force everyone to junk all their hardware every five years.
PING!
Maybe they’ll get it right the next time, or the time after that.
Win95 sucked (crash city), 98 was better, and I have no big complaints with XPPRO.
In the university where I teach
none of their software will work with Vista.
I recently bought a new computer
and deliberately chose an older model
that still had Windows XP, not Vista, installed.
Two problems I can think of - one, some of the features promised (the new file system, for example) weren't delivered, and second, the hardware requirements and the price have tended to force potential users to wait until the purchase of a new machine to use the OS. That's fine if Microsoft can wait that long, supporting XP the entire time. They didn't want to do that and I understand perfectly why not.
Apple could move into the breach, I think, but that would require a reduction of price beyond their customary model. But the market share is out there up for grabs. The various Linux distributions have made huge strides in ease of installation but the proliferation of versions hasn't really helped marketing matters a lot. Nobody with a Vista or OSX machine has to ask "which distro?" With Linux they do.
Somebody will move - the market is demanding it. It will be entertaining to see who does first and who does most successfully. That'll be small comfort for us poor SOB's who have to support them all... :-(
I have an old licensed and unused copy of Win XP around here somewhere, and thought of installing that on this notebook, but the geeks at Best Buy claim that there are keys in the motherboard or something, so that if I try to install XP on this Visduh machine, it will not work, and that further, the various drivers in the machine will not work with XP. Does anyone know if this is true or not?
I have Vista Ultimate and I’m very happy with it. Unfortunately I can’t find a good statistics package that will run on it that doesn’t cost over $2k. For that reason alone I haven’t been able to convert over fully.
Now I don’t feel like such a chump with my 2.5ghz XP machine. Though I sure am tempted to go dual core. Does XP show benefits from dual core?
This thread needs that Simpsons character pointing and saying, “Ha ha!”