Posted on 09/27/2007 12:48:41 PM PDT by ShadowAce
It’s a ruse to get you to switch to crappy Vista.
I was thinking almost the same thing. MS slogan used to be "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run". I guess now it's Vista isn't done until XP won't run".
Every professional magazine I’ve read about Vista pretty much pans it in terms of providing any real reason to upgrade.
I got a new laptop with Windows Vista, it is CRAP.
Microsoft continues to base its business model on the abuse of its customers. I can't see how they believe that will be a viable long-term plan.
Every one of these stupid stunts only gives further incentive for customers to find and support the competition.
I wonder sometimes if Bill Gates appreciates the bitter irony of the fact that he has become exactly what he despised in IBM when he started.
Sorry. My HD crashed in July. Refused Vista because I didn’t want to go through the hassle of converting Cakewalk’s Sonar software. It’s always a mess and takes me months to relearn everthing. XP installed fine. Updates installed fine. Everything working perfectly.
Not buying this story ... OR ... Vista.
I believe MS will work with you on providing a downgrade license to XP. Give their tech support a call, and if they can give you an XP product key, you can just use it instead.
Bump
“I got a new laptop with Windows Vista, it is CRAP.”
Not entirely, the record companies like it.
Except that the story was pertaining to a Repair function which is only done if your XP system has crashed for some reason and you use the CD to repair it. It has nothing to do with a new install of XP, which, if I read correctly, you did. Other then that I agree with the not buying Vista part.
In the shop I work in, we get an average of 40 calls a week form people with Vista problems. Most of which have to do with printer drivers failing during use and then working during others.
I gave up entirely on computers, now I just call the freerepublic 800 number and do everything over the phone.
It takes longer to have to listen to all the threads, but at least I don’t have to deal with the photos of Helen Thomas.
They spec'ed large portions of it. They ought to like it.
“It’s a ruse to get you to switch to crappy Vista.”
It succeeded...in getting me to switch to the Mac.
for later
anti-Vista bump
I helped him out as much as I could, but a lot of it came down to "You have to BUY the Vista version of the app...", speaking of forcing upgrades, "as 2006 and earlier versions are not supported..."
I'm having trouble updating (XP) Framework 2.0, myself, just on one machine. I've been too lazy to go through the hassle of doing it from scratch.
Again. Happened one of the last times they did an update of it, too.
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