You aren't running proprietary corporate software developed prior to Vista.
You aren't attempting to use hardware developed prior to Vista.
And you aren't doing anything processor-intensive-enough to notice the Vista speed slowdown.
(nor would I believe you if you tried to claim otherwise)
Short of telling everyone they needed a new machine, they tried to separate the pigs from the poke.
In trying to do people a favor, they may have erred. They perhaps took people at their word or did not see all the potential problems, but there is nothing wrong with putting a innovative OS on a new machine that can handle it. Perhaps what they should do, is not allow people to turn off the security features that warn you if you are opening a non compatible program or hooking up a obsolete device that it cannot interface with for one reason or another. This is probably being done by all who complain the loudest.
Why haven’t I experienced these alleged problems?”
You aren’t running proprietary corporate software developed prior to Vista.
You aren’t attempting to use hardware developed prior to Vista.
And you aren’t doing anything processor-intensive-enough to notice the Vista speed slowdown.
(nor would I believe you if you tried to claim otherwise)
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Nice strawman. I never claimed otherwise. In fact, I said we should just get rid of the older equipment and modernize right in my first post. The hardware is dirt cheap anyway.
I just think these cheap shots at Microsoft are contemptible. The average user (that’s most of us) will have absolutely no difficulty with Vista. If the other software manufacturers don’t want to update their products, that’s their problem. And there is no reason under to sun not to use current hardware. Any four year old machine is obsolete anyway.