I'm out of luck, huh?
Posted on 01/30/2007 12:16:33 AM PST by ShawTaylor
The program you linked to does not work on my Linux box. Oh well.
I'm out of luck, huh?
PC World ran bench tests on it and it is slower than XP for most all applications but does run multi-threading a bit faster. It is really bad with games, but hopefully drivers will fix that.
There is also some concern about the increased copy protection built in that may cause trouble even for legal use of media.
Plus, lots of hardware will have to be replaced or will not work until drivers are available.
You can get most of the features of Vista on XP with add-ons, lots of them free.
I just do not see any good reason to upgrade when I am mostly buying eye candy and I can get that for XP.
Maybe they should have read this article first:
http://www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog:20070124
I think I'll wait until Bill Gates decides he doesn't want to control what's on my hard drive, the lawyers get done reading the small print in the license and MS takes the Hi-Def restrictions out of it.
Oh yeah, and until they work out some of the bugs and outright mistakes.
Sheesh.
Peter Gutmann's article: "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection"
"I don't think any serious company will be upgrading to this OS for many years"
While true, that statement has nothing to do with how good or bad vista is or isn't. The training costs for support staff, new license costs and upgrades costs are too prohibitive. Big companies like to ride an OS until support has been dried up.
Darn. I have mutual funds which include Microsoft like 50% of all Americans out there. I'm screwed since Microsoft sucks. I"l switch to Apple before I'll buy Vista.
You're half right. However, most medium-to-large companies have license agreements which allow them to use the new version without exta cost.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Care to explain? I've ripped lots of audio CD on Vista without issue. Are you sure you understand DRM?
My business partner was telling me that he has been getting messages from Quickbooks with the message that older versions of Quickbooks WILL NOT WORK with Vista.
Good points in that article. I have a lot of trouble determining why an OS should become a police force.
That's correct. Microsoft, to be fair, has a pretty good rebuttal on that which I read the other day (sorry, no link, but I think it was on Dvorak's blog). Evidently the programmers have for years ignored MS specs and have been somewhat renegade. It finally caught up.
Although we use Quickbooks for my company and have since the first DOS version, I am starting to look upon Quickbooks like I look on Symantec's products. Bloated code, poor operation, primary function is a cashectomy from customers.
A few thoughts:
1) I'm pro-Microsoft but SOP applies here: wait until Service Pack 1 is issued before buying/installing.
2) The "Midnight Madness" method of cheap/free PR and news generation is TIRED. They do it for every fanboy movie and game console. Even if it's something really important/good, is it really worth standing around in the middle of the night with a bunch of obnoxious people?
3) Virtual sandboxing (VMWare etc.) will level the playing field quicker than any flame wars and advertising campaigns. That's why MS and others will micromanage license terms in order to avoid giving customers the ability to switch platforms in an instant. If you had 10 cars in the garage, would you drive the same one every day?
Thanks for that!
Thanks for the info. The problem was the Aquarium screen saver that came installed on the PC. If it is running in the background, the icons change to squares randomly. The programs work via the shortcuts, but I didn't want squares; I want the correct icon logos on a brand new PC. HP and Microsoft had "no clue" why it was happening. I was told by a PC guru that it has to do with the memory allocated for the screen saver to run. HP/Microsoft don't allot enough memory for that to run in the background. It can be fixed, but not worth the BS. I just turned off the Aquarium screen saver. All this came after many many contentious hours on the telephone with tech support idiots that have no clue how to fix anything. Their ultimate advise (when they can't fix it) is to wipe the hard drive and do a system restore back to the day I took it out of the box. I would like to state here that the PC was two weeks old at the time. I had spent hours installing all the software and I was NOT going to wipe the hard drive because these idiots didn't know how to fix their PCs. All this lunacy isn't so pissy if the customer is PC savvy. I'm not. When I spend $1,000, I expect the product to work. Stupid me!
I'm still using Windows 2K. I don't want to buy a new OS everytime I swap out a motherboard
I've had no problems with Vista either.
Love your personal page!
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