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Post by avax on Jun 6, 2007 15:40:42 GMT -5
How dumb is this product ?
Ive installed sound cards for three people in the past week.
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Post by dannyd on Jun 6, 2007 19:30:35 GMT -5
I've been using it for a bit under 3 weeks and it has grown on me a fair bit to be honest.
Essentially I don't think the 'new' features are worth the investment, however I bought a new computer and with a choice of XP and Vista, of course I was going Vista. Its a little buggy, these things will be irnoed out but I do like it overall. I've found the networking on it to be really smooth aswell, unlike past versions of windows which could be very temperamental.
Wouldn't recommend less than 2 Gig of RAM though
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Post by avax on Jun 6, 2007 19:59:19 GMT -5
Hmm. Thanks for the feedback, wondering how others fared on their Vista systems. My pc isn't vista but I recently had to work on one. It was pretty... but not worth the investment, in my humble opinion. There were far too many bugs and within a few minutes, realized that sounds would not play while surfing/on the browser/s. Those are easily fixed by downloading drivers so it wasn't a major issue. Then it came to password protected websites which made it VERY difficult and the browser would crash (both firefox and internet explorer). No, it wasn't porn. For an established company like microsoft, why are there so many bugs and is it a marketing ploy? It reminds me of silly switch msnmessenger made from vs. 7.5 to beta and then to livemessenger - but that's more like a petty gripe. AND it also reminds me of the ridiculous and excessive millions that the cosmetic industry churns out creating "new and improved" age-defying skin formulas when the latest works no better than the one before it. Here's a semi-funny but highly biased blip from an unhappy customer. www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200705/ij_05_21_07a.htmlI also heard complaints that symantec and some antivirus programs aren't compatible with vista because microsoft is getting a little uncomfortable and upping its competitive 'edge'. From the little I've seen this seems to be nonsense as the systems I saw had symantec fully functional. Anyone experienced otherwise? Also there've been some complaints about vista draining a lot more battery than xp on laptops.
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Post by shugi on Jun 6, 2007 23:25:09 GMT -5
I made a thread about this the first week it came out, at the same time I bought a copy of home premium. The main issues when upgrading your computer to vista are the drivers in your motherboard, graphics and sound, often hardware products that you bought when you had xp will also need drivers for vista via the manufacturers, such as tv tuners. People who are not as flexible with computers or dont know the hardware in their computer hence wouldnt know how to upgrade will find it difficult initially when getting vista, although if your upgrading your system with vista and "Have" a internet connection that'll cut out the main driver compatability issues of sound and graphics when your doing the system upgrade.
The system upgrade composes of 2 options, 1 you can keep your old files and old xp in a folder called "Windows old" and have vista as your running system, and 2 you can have a clean computer with vista only, I strongly recommend having the 1st option especially if your a gamer because you run into any problems you can simply move the file from "Windows old" into your vista folders.
Vista initially is not user friendly to people who dont know how to work with their computer's specifics.
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Post by avax on Jun 6, 2007 23:53:15 GMT -5
Yeah, I have windows 98 in my backpocket and my running system is xp. Those are some helpful tips though. Thanks for posting them. Sorry about any thread overlapping.
I still think it's rather silly to not have something like this be user-friendly because a good many people are frowning, scratching their head and embittered. How is this supposed to help sales? Or .. ?
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Post by shugi on Jun 7, 2007 0:20:18 GMT -5
With the launch of a new operating system platform there are bound to be problems with the user or computer. Most of us are comfortable with xp that we know and have been working with for quite sometime we become accustomed to not encountering software compatability issues, or hardware ones, and when people get vista they run into software and hardware problems all at once. Vista once its up and running is much more user friendly and visual than xp.
The complaints dont help sales but its inevitable when companies will make the switch to vista, and then people in households. The 1st year of a release of this sought of product is used to weed out these issues, also giving hardware/software manufacturers time to get product patches and drivers out there to go with vista. Theres always the customer support options on the last pg of their quick start guide.
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Post by shugi on Jun 7, 2007 0:38:43 GMT -5
? Vista was not released then
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Post by avax on Jun 8, 2007 9:16:22 GMT -5
? Vista was not released then Of course not. Who said I was working on the RTM release? Well? How did you find it?
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