Community weekly poll: When will you start using Windows Vista?
- 4/26/07 1:03 PM
When will you start using Windows Vista?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 4/26/07 1:03 PM
When will you start using Windows Vista?
I'm already using it (How do you like it?)
I'll upgrade soon (When?)
Maybe within the year (Why?)
After a year (Why?)
When I'm forced to (Why?)
When Microsoft stops supporting XP
Never (Why not?)
I don't do Windows (What do you use?)
(NT) Been using and loving it since last year. :)
by John.Wilkinson - 4/26/07 1:06 PM
In reply to: When will you start using Windows Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
VISTA
by Auntycon - 4/27/07 6:33 PM In reply to: (NT) Been using and loving it since last year. :) by John.Wilkinson
I love it and if you will just give it a try.............you will too. It is so automatic and user friendly if you do not expect things to be like XP. This is much better and I have had not problems that I can not fix myself. The phone company did not know how to hook up the mail program in my DSL but I figures it out alone...just give progress a try. I am a senior citizen so if I can love it, so can you.. Everything I use runs just fine so it might be a matter of fighting something new...Thanks Microsoft.
Windows Vista
by scismgenie - 4/28/07 6:19 AM In reply to: (NT) Been using and loving it since last year. :) by John.Wilkinson
I have recently purchased a Windows Vista machine.
There are a LOT of compatibility issues, like waiting for companies to develop drivers for the peripherals, I haven't been able to print anything on this machine since day one. Additionally Back support of Microsoft's own products is lacking, Microsoft Office 2003 and Works 6.0 are incompatible. Many of my other company programs conflict and will not even run, Media Center takes over the computer for all file types and will play in parallel to any other program you install, unless you go in and reassign the file type defaults.
Several programs lose their performance, (NoteTab, my preferred text/HTML editing software loses its ability to emulate keystrokes while processing text).
My Graphics programs are totally inoperative.
The "free" virus protection that comes with it is incompatible and allows you to 'think' you are protected. (Norton anti-virus)
The system asks you to verify EVERY program you run, and there is no way I have found to tell it to allow commonly used programs without bothering me with "are you sure?" messages.
I am dissatisfied with the system, I thought when I bought the product in February, that I was "upgrading" to less operational problems, but sadly it is a JUNK operating system that is a large step backwards in everyday use.
Lexmark indicates that a driver for my $350 printer should be available soon, (April 30). I did return my computer thirty days after I bought it, the Technicians went through it and said there were NO issues in it, that it was working exactly as Microsoft intended, requiring the user to purchase updated everything to make it work without problems, and they suggested that I switch to HP printers because that is what Microsoft set the system up to accept.
Vista is terrible
by donmid - 4/29/07 10:14 PM In reply to: Windows Vista by scismgenieWe have four laptops - two came with Vista and two with XP. Everyday there is a battle to get the two with XP.
Vista is slow (really slow - even with 2G memory), full of irritating messages, not compatible with half our programs, hard to navigate, generally a piece of junk.
I have obtained two new XP Pro's disks and tomorrow there will be no stinking Vista.
I will change to Vista when pigs fly
by gizmo379 - 5/1/07 5:29 AM In reply to: Windows Vista by scismgenieThat wasn't one of the acceptable options, so I actually chose 'when forced to' as my vote. But knowing Microsoft, they just might find a way to make pigs fly, so I'd better watch myself. I have to go with all the users who are screaming that there is no Microsoft help for those of us who are XP users. I have been invited to do several user testings over the past, either in Redmond, or in my home. Upon completion, I am always given a choice of software as my reward. One was when Windows XP had just been released. I chose a copy of Windows ME instead. The tester asked if I didn't want a copy of XP, so I'd be 'current', especially at the street value of XP. My response was "I've never bought 'Version 1.0 of anything'". The same goes for Vista. After MS gets bomblasted enough with complaints from XP users, and loses enough to Linux OS, then MAYBE they'll get smart and update Vista to 2.0, release it at a reasonable price for upgraders, and have real online/voice support. THEN, I'll start looking for flying pigs....til then, I'll stay with all the hardcore users who want their computers to work when THEY want them to work.
I can positively say....
by Me, Myself and You - 5/1/07 6:04 AM In reply to: I will change to Vista when pigs fly by gizmo379...agreed!
when pigs fly
by mario_echavarria - 8/20/07 11:42 AM In reply to: I can positively say.... by Me, Myself and YouI will probally be using vista when pigs fly. Too much complications for now.
Vista - NEVER!
by mlcgruhlke - 4/28/07 7:36 AM In reply to: (NT) Been using and loving it since last year. :) by John.Wilkinson
I have been running Windows XP Professional for a number of years without any issues whatsoever. If MS decides to end support for this great OS, then I will migrate to Linux. An OS shouldn't be released aka Vista...this reminds me so much of Windows ME failure. And, I agree with others here on the problems associated with validation/revalidation of software to acquire necessary OS and security updates to "fix" something their programmers screwed up or missed. I'm tired of MS's hot fixes - it's Linux next for me and there are a lot of programs now that one can install in a Linux platform which will accommodate most Windows designed software. See ya Bill!
reply to: Vista - NEVER!
by HawaiiMuskrat - 4/28/07 12:26 PM In reply to: Vista - NEVER! by mlcgruhlkeI agree. Essentially, Windows Vista is the unabsorbed residue of the equine digestive process! I too will be moving to Linux, perhaps well ahead of the end of XP support.
Never!
by Tornado46 - 4/28/07 8:40 AM In reply to: (NT) Been using and loving it since last year. :) by John.Wilkinson
Because Vista won't work anyway on my PC. :^)
I will not go back never
by raffalcon1 - 4/28/07 4:11 PM In reply to: (NT) Been using and loving it since last year. :) by John.Wilkinson
I buy an HP on October 2006 with XP and option to upgrade to Vista. I accept the challege and I do not regret. Thank to CNET, I learned a lot about to make my PC MY PC againg. HP give me the drivers for some of my periferals and microsoft do the same for the other ones. The Vista update give you the updates to many programs (online and inside your PC). And the most I like: if there is a problem, Vista has a feature that check for online solutions at Microsoft or the manufaturer of the product who was the problem. You only have to be patient.
Againg, Vista give me some headaches at the begining. But now I will not go back.
microsoft windows vista home basic {emachines} by dell
by kathyrose102565 - 4/29/07 7:44 PM In reply to: (NT) Been using and loving it since last year. :) by John.Wilkinson
i went out and brought it on the same day when it was put out which was in feb. 07 and only probilems i have with it are some of the games i have wont work on it which is ok cause i still have my old computer with xp on it. only other problem im haveing with it is it takes forever to download games from the internet why is that.
heres the rest of my iformation.
w3609 desktop pc windows vista home basic 15-in-1 memory card reader dvd+rw multi format double layer optical driver 512 mb ddr2 intel celeron d processor 356 3.33 ghz 533 mhz fsb 512 kb l2 cache intel graphics media accelerator 950 with avilable pci-express slot hard drive 120 gb network 10/100 mbps ethernet lan.
but i still have problems dowloading stuff from the internet and i dont have dial up i have cable so is this enough information about my computer is there a way you can help me find out why it takes solong to download stuff.
thank you,kathy
ps ill be waiting to hear from you.
not yet
by mario_echavarria - 8/20/07 11:45 AM In reply to: (NT) Been using and loving it since last year. :) by John.Wilkinson
Not at the moment, Microsoft needs to fix those issues like it supposed to do. For now will be using linux ubutnu. Wors better and much stable with wireless connection with my modem. well Vista should be impeach as an OS.
Two years it seems.
by R. Proffitt - 4/26/07 1:07 PM
In reply to: When will you start using Windows Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
At the Office we have none and as long as Dell keeps selling us XP Pro based machines we'll just watch from the sidelines.
Why? Gotta work.
Bob
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