Windows Vista: Windows Vista Bugs
I only had one
by will1105 - 3/15/07 3:01 AM In reply to: Windows Vista Bugs by photohamI use Ubuntu Linux on my main PC at home and at work. Since I run an IT department, I figured I needed to install and learn Vista. I had to buy more memory(from 512 to 1024) and buy a 256 MB video card. I upgraded from a fresh install of XP and the only problem I have had is that my wireless card did not work. So I just switched to wired network access and I have been running it ever since.
I actually like it as much as I can a Microshaft product. So to be fair coming from a Linux guy it is stable and works for me...
Best Way to Run Vista is on a Mac
by soldano - 3/15/07 3:26 AM In reply to: I only had one by will1105I ditched Microsoft (for the most part) about 12 months ago and got me a Mac Book Pro (sweet tool!). I use it everyday for about 90+% of my everyday needs however there are some apps I can't get for Mac that exist only for MS based systems and I also need it to hop onto MS server domains.
I installed MS Vista Business on my Mac with the use of Parallels and man it great. I have none of the bitching issues most people encounter since parallels emulates all the device drivers and pipes all requests out an inbound through the devices which are handled by Tiger OSX.
I have 2 Gig of Ram and Vista loads super fast and behaves quicker than the installs on brute powered PC's.
I luv my Mac and M$ can die peacefully for the crappy abomination they have unleashed at a premium on the public for essentially a Beta product namely being Vista.
Brutes
by dandevil - 3/15/07 6:25 AM In reply to: Best Way to Run Vista is on a Mac by soldanoI've got an HP Pavilion m7360n Media Centre TV PC with 2.8Ghz dual core, dual geForce 7950s Xfired and 4 gigs of RAM (upgrades) and in alot of ways Vista operates much faster on it than XP but for nayone with a 'regular system' it's slower. The brute runs it faster than XP and the lesser systems load it and run it slower. There is still the compatibility issue and also the dificulties in things like network and internet settings wich have to be completely redone for most sites, including Microsoft. I couldn't sign into Sympatico/MSN or my Hotmail, even after I got the home network and conectivity issues solved. I'll wait.
problems?
by gazzaDJ - 3/15/07 3:27 AM In reply to: Windows Vista Bugs by photohamahhh yes. these mythical hardware and software problems i keep hearing about. I bought Vista Ultimate OEM for my Dell Ispiron 6000 laptop. i did have a pirated copy of Vista, but i thought it was worth the £100 it cost me. i installed it, and everything worked absolutely fine. only driver i had to get for myself was the touchpad driver, and that was just so i could use the scroll bars on the touch pad. finding, downloading and installing the driver took all of 5 minutes.
Next up was getting the latest Catalyst driver from ATI. again, painless to find and install. All of my software works fine. seriously, the only compatibility issue i have had was with Alcohol 120%, which would not run properly. this was easily solved by a quick google search, which revealed i needed to run this application as an administrator.
I do wonder why people are struggling so much :S
Vista is a nightmare
by andy30041 - 3/15/07 3:29 AM In reply to: Windows Vista Bugs by photohamMicrosoft has struck again. Vista incompatibilities are the result of tight lipped Microsoft trying to be competitive with Apple in the bling-bling catagory instead of being customer focused. That's OK though. Billy Bob needed a few more billion before he retires and starts his good will road trip with the Dali Lama.
Microsoft Applications and MS Vista
by jonhaggis - 3/15/07 3:31 AM In reply to: Windows Vista Bugs by photohamMicrosoft has always had this problem. If you don't have the exact application you can't open it in another program, like word processing. Example: I send my frend a document and when I try to open it it is unable to open or it makes it into code not readabe to the current application. When going to school it was difficult because not everyone has the same applications pluss they have PCs with one type and Macs with anonter. Not all the
applications have full licenses either like Adobe Acrobat Reader may only have the reader and not abilty to write a new document. Basically to read documents by other users you have to make into a .jpg --
Windows
by beat - 3/15/07 3:33 AM In reply to: Windows Vista Bugs by photohamI get a laugh when I read of the people getting in the queu every time MS comes out with a new version. Some never learn.
2002 I bought a new laptop and was glad it came with ME, altough XP was allready hitting the market. Reading from all the problems people esperinced with XP, I was comforted. 2 1/2 years later I bought a desktop with XP SP2 and that is quit stable, only few problems with 3rd party software and most of them offered an XP update. But IE6 and IE7 is still trash, Im pleased with Firefox.
One should learn to wait for at least the SP2 befor considering installing a new Windows version.
Who is to blame? First of all MS! Its their software interface that must be so screwy that it gives 3rd party developpers such a hard time.
Remember, the first decent Windows was NT4, it was also the first to be a real OS while the others were only graphic user surfaces. This was the benefit of the ex DEC crew hired by MS after being licenced from DEC. They were the ones who had developped the Vax VMS, a tremendous powerful professional OS.
W2000 and then XP are the happy marriage of W98 with NT, true OS and quit stable. I dont know who developped Vista, one must consider that the ex DEC crew is getting into age.
Ms not to blame!
by tsnyderks - 3/15/07 3:38 AM In reply to: Windows Vista Bugs by photohamI have tested Vista since the first beta release. All since then I have written to different sofware companies asking them to support the new OS. Most of them, among them Corel, have answered that they do not support an OS before it is released. So Corel Painter did not support Vista until after the Vista release in february. One other example: Nvidia did nor release a working Vista graphics driver for my display card that worked properly during the beta test period. I have many more examples like this.
All the testing time I was in the Vista testing feedback program and reported all non working softs to Microsoft. They made a fix for most of all softwares, including Nividias graphichs driver, by rerporting back to me when a fix was ready. So Microsoft took their part of the Vista responsibilties. Many software companies did not. But Adobe was never a problem. No problems what so ever with Photoshop or other Adobes programmes in Vista. I have a lot of examples where soft and hard companies gave a good support and came up with an early Vista compatible upgrade.
I guess all OS changing will result in some problems. I guess Mac users have the same bad experience with the latest OS change, I know. It's not just a Ms problem. It's a common migration problem in every OS upgrade.
By the way, have you tried running all non-working programs in XP copatible mode in Vista? Or runing them as an Administrator? That way I have had 95% of all programmes working all right in Vista without true Vista compatibility.
MS's 3rd parties are the whole freaking PC industry
by _ksenofil_ - 3/15/07 3:58 AM In reply to: Ms not to blame! by tsnyderksAnd as a whole, the industry is taking a great hit. I mean, money. Vendors can't avoid Vista (monopoly advantage), and supporting it will cost the whole industry BILLIONS.
Irony is that the features they have to implement (like DRM) aren't even useful for the user - quite the contrary. And it will be the user - you, who would pay for the development in the end. Software, hardware - everybody is affected, and not in a positive way. Read for example this: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
I newer thought of leaving Windows Land before, but there is a limit to my patience. MAC still makes me womit, maybe Linux...
Vista or NOT!!
by roxy2345 - 3/15/07 4:09 AM In reply to: Windows Vista Bugs by photohamI installed Vista only to find out many of my programs are not supported and there are no drivers or whatever the hell it is to make Vsta run correctly. It's very difficult to point the blame (vista or 3 party manufacturers) but microsoft should have warned its customers of all the problems. And I got to say it I have read some of the comments posted and some have said they are having no problems!!!! Unblievable !! You you guys workks for Microsoft"? Simple 3rd party installs "Norton Security 2007..it's damn impossible to install!! Also many other programs i thought i wouldnt have a problem with..will not run to this day. Anyway, I like what i see with the Vista OS program, I just wish someone had the ***** to tell all us non geeks that Vista will give us nothing but headaches.
Am i right? or am i the only one having issues!? Because it's frustrating!!
Sign me... Should have stayed XP for at least the next 6 months or so..
Will Microsoft Office XP Profs be compatible with Vista?
by darkpowrjd - 3/15/07 4:27 AM In reply to: Windows Vista Bugs by photohamI was just wondering if there will be any issues should I choose to upgrade to Vista in its ability to run Office Professional written for the XP operating system?
My PC is a Sony Vaio (desktop) with 512mb of Ram 2.8Ghz Intel pentium 4 processor with a Nvidea Geforce FX 5200 graphics card.
I'm looking to get a new laptop for my business and don't want to have any compatibilty issues. Can you you please put my mind at rest?
I sure can....
by beebarnes777 - 3/15/07 9:03 AM In reply to: Will Microsoft Office XP Profs be compatible with Vista? by darkpowrjdBuy a Mac...
Vista vs. XP Media Centre
by dandevil - 3/15/07 4:30 AM In reply to: Windows Vista Bugs by photohamI have a new HP Pavilion m7360n Media Centre TV PC that came with XP Media Centre Edition pre loaded and I have an older (1 1/2 yrs.) Pentium four 2.8 Ghz.(HT)with 1 Gb. RAM that I upgraded to Vista home premium and I don't use it anymore. I just use the HP with XP because the Vista has way too many compatibility problems. If it was my only connected unit I'd be un-installing Vista and re-installing XP. I will give it a boo in a year to see if they have worked it all out but for now I'm sticking with what works. XP.
There is some responsibility on Microsoft's side
by woodhead - 3/15/07 4:32 AM In reply to: Windows Vista Bugs by photohamImagine if you just purchased a new car. You spent a LOT of omney on it. You now find out that the nozzle of existing gas pumps won't fit in your brand new car.
The auto manufacturer tells you it is the fault of the GAS company for not 'redesigning their gas pumps to fuel YOU new car.'
Or now standard tire sizes do not fit - again - this is GoodYear's fault for NOT anticipating a new tire size for your new car, not the auto manufacturer's...
If your current computer works to your satisfaction, DO NOT upgrade - simple as that. Do you buy a new car evey time a newer model comes out?
Of course it's microsoft problem with Vista
by rouse51 - 3/15/07 4:34 AM In reply to: Windows Vista Bugs by photohamWhat would you say if you brought a new TV and it was PAL. Would you blame the broadcasters for not converting to PAL? What about a car that ran on vegetable oil? Blame the Gas station? The problem is that Microsoft released a tool that said my computer was compatable. I upgraded and it's not. That is simply false advertisement. If I buy a card that says Vista Compatable it should work. If microsoft sells an operating system that is PC compatable it should work on any PC that meets the requirement. Look at what happened to the anti-virus companies. The software won't allow them to do there job. Vista is suppose to be a consumer product, not the other way around.
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