Any jackass can make a fortune in America if they try. You can make millions with a purple dinosaur for kids. You can make a fortune marketing crap software that crashes and use your billions of capitalist profits for Socialist causes.
Posted on 03/09/2008 5:23:13 PM PDT by Obi-Wandreas
"They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.
By RANDALL STROSS ONE year after the birth of Windows Vista, why do so many Windows XP users still decline to “upgrade”?
Microsoft says high prices have been the deterrent. Last month, the company trimmed prices on retail packages of Vista, trying to entice consumers to overcome their reluctance. In the United States, an XP user can now buy Vista Home Premium for $129.95, instead of $159.95.
An alternative theory, however, is that Vista’s reputation precedes it. XP users have heard too many chilling stories from relatives and friends about Vista upgrades that have gone badly. The graphics chip that couldn’t handle Vista’s whizzy special effects. The long delays as it loaded. The applications that ran at slower speeds. The printers, scanners and other hardware peripherals, which work dandily with XP, that lacked the necessary software, the drivers, to work well with Vista.
Can someone tell me again, why is switching XP for Vista an “upgrade”?"
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
My wife’s Vista Dell laptop works great. We have had one issue ... her HP PDA will not synchronize correctly with it. Apparently it is a common problem with that particular PDA.
Oh yeah, my Cruzer thumb drive won’t work on it either.
The OpenGL API is supported but through a Direct3D
interface. This disadvantages native OpenGL in favor
of MS’s own proprietary 3D API. The OpenGL API will
work but at the cost of some call overhead.
It's not merely a great country, it is in fact the greatest country.
Is it cool, sure. And if I had newer hardware, I might run it as part of the standard boot, but it's really not necessary.
Microsoft; the P.T. Barnum of the computer world.
So what’s new? There has never been a D3D interface for OpenGL. Graphics card vendors have been shipping ICDs for OpenGL since 2000.
It's more about fixing something that isn't broken.
The idiotic UI changes alone are enough to keep me away from it, they look like a bunch of script kiddies had too much time on their hands. The two-step file menu works perfectly well, the only important change that's needed is that which focuses on security and making it more lean and faster, kind of the way Windows 2000 is.
Any jackass can make a fortune in America if they try. You can make millions with a purple dinosaur for kids. You can make a fortune marketing crap software that crashes and use your billions of capitalist profits for Socialist causes.
Type what you’re looking for in the search bar. No need to be terribly specific. That’ll save you any scary extra mouse clicks.
Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
I HATE Vista. My computer goes haywire all the time, and it is new and not virus problems. It is Vista. It is from Hell.
Given the all development time they took to get it out the door. It's a damn teenager, and should at least know how to drive by now.
M$ screwed the pooch on this one, and even they know it. They're going back to numbering for the next version. Windows 8 I believe, which they're going to push out the door well ahead of schedule. More fun for the end users.
It will still be crap, and you'll still have to jump through hoops, buy newer hardware and software, and you'll still have to agree to let M$ make changes to your system without your knowledge. You give consent (in perpetuity) when you install it on your system.
No thanks. My computer is mine, and what it does, what it runs, and when it does it is my decision. Not your overlords in Redmond.
It is easier to crack the code to get into the computers at the PENTAGON than to be able to speak in ENGLISH to someone at Dell.
Use Dell tech support 'Chat'. Dell insiders claim support read English better than they speak it. My experience bears it out. Give it a try.
Nah I’ll just stay on XP until 2014 or whenever they quit supporting it. I hope they extend the life of Windows 2000 like they did 98SE, I’m using that also and actually consider it their best creation.
Micro$oft had credibility ?
Don't think I'll be buying Windows/MEII anytime soon!
You take me entirely too seriously. I’ve never served in the Armed Forces. I’m just a clown.
Unlike your Dad who fought for real, I would hide for cover under the bed like a wimp at the first sound of gunfire.
I do well in a plain old bar fight, and I’m skilled in Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido...but real warfare...???
I’ll leave that to brave Americans who are better than me.
While Vista is indeed a debacle, if you want to see eye popping evidence of Microsoft’s recent incompetence, take a look at Zune software. It’s like they wrote down every feature and attribute of itunes and set out to be inferior in every way imaginable.
Bttt.
I honestly don’t know what you guys do with your computers. I have 2 E-machines, one runs XP and the newer one runs Vista. The XP is FAST and the Vista one was SLOW until I got rid of Symantec and McAfee. I now run NOD32 on the Vista machine and it’s comparable to the XP in speed. Never crashes and never has the problems that’s been described.
I like them both.
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