Windows Vista will have you scrambling to recover or re-install Windows XP at all costs. Avoid this new operating system like the plague. DO NOT buy a new computer that comes pre-installed with Vista. Show the retailers who's boss. Insist upon Windows XP... or no sale.
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Windows Vista will have you scrambling to recover Windows XP at all costs. Avoid this new operating system like the plague. DO NOT buy a new computer that comes pre-installed with Vista. Show them who's boss. Insist upon Windows XP... or no sale.
Paul Thurrott of winsupersite.com says Microsoft is identifying the issues which are causing the most problems and fixing those first. Of the remaining 4 percent of incompatible devices, or about 70,000 devices, 4,000 account for about 80 percent of the problems. "This is our bogey list right now," Windows Client Partner Platform Group Director Dave Wascha told Thurrott in a recent briefing. "So we're on the phone with vendors, flying out to meet with them, and getting these issues addressed. Once that's done, we'll do it all again."
So what's the criterion for getting a device working in Windows Vista? Wascha told Thurrott that Microsoft will fix or create drivers for any device that generates 500 or more user reports. "We have legions of engineers dedicated to this one purpose," Wascha said. "And we will continue to churn through that list." The only exception, of course, is drivers for devices that are no longer sold because the company that made them went out of business. "Unfortunately, the answer there is that it will never work," he said.
What this boils down to is that, as of this writing, 70,000 devices that currently work just fine with Windows XP will not function with Vista by means of Microsoft driver fixes unless 500 people all complain about it. Good luck!
Consumer Reports just revealed their distaste for Vista. They reported that the operating system is dog slow, slower than Windows XP.
Many web surfers are discovering that they can no longer log in at many websites due to out of control overkill security settings that cannot be tamed or turned off. Websites are putting up warnings that users will have to log in using XP or a Mac. Citibank Virtual Account Numbers program users cannot use the desktop version of that program with Vista at all.
The list goes on and on.
Frik Els of fin24.co.za says: "It was only when I circumvented Vista and adjusted the controls of the graphics card from NVidia that I got it up and running. NVidia is being sued for not making its software Vista compatible. Perhaps it should be the other way around.
After the multimedia meltdown things went downhill. The system began to hang frequently without it being clear what caused the fault. And it wasn't just incompatible software from other vendors causing problems.
Even run-of-the-mill internet browsing ran into trouble. Resurrecting the machine from sleep mode and the battery power management controls also appeared to be behind many of the more serious system crashes.
Vista itself isn't very user friendly either. A simple task, such as backing up data to DVD and CD, is still a laborious process. And don't dare select too many files to burn at a time. If you exceed the capacity of the DVD you have to start the process all over again.
The biggest difference to the graphical user interface isn't the rather superfluous 3D rendering of translucent windows, a trick you get tired of quickly, but the built-in search function. The search is great to find music or document files fast, but system controls and the help database don't seem to form part of the index.
Microsoft allows the user to downgrade back to XP on Vista Business but Home Basic and Premium users are stuck with their operating system."
PC World, in an article entitled "Living With Vista: First 30 Days," says: "With the new version of Windows finally out, early users say they're bedeviled by hardware and software problems..."
A poster to that same article in PC World reported this: "I had to replace my broken business laptop with what was available in retail stores. I selected a HP Pavilion DV2000 with Vista pre-installed. It would not work with my office network, also very sluggish!
I contacted HP via live web chat about switching (back down) to XP and was told I could do this by utilizing the drivers on their web site. Bought a copy of XP, tried to install and could not - HP's very rude Vista support rep. reversed the other tech's advise, and said that the equipment (designed for Vista) would not work with XP. After persistent inquiry on my part, she finally admitted that the XP drivers were just not ready for this (Vista compatible) computer. They might be ready in 3 months, but if I installed XP, my (HP / Vista) warranty would be void and they would not assist me in installing.
Now I have a computer I can't use unless I void my (HP / Vista) warranty and even then, not for 3 months. I also have a copy of XP I can't seem to install!"
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