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  b

  11 months ago

  Sorry, but this post sounds like marketing copy. ..."I also work for Microsoft." -- at least there's disclosure.
  
  A buddy of mine has had Vista for over a year, and STILL can't suspend/hibernate because of inadequate driver support for his NON-exotic hardware.
  
  My brother has a laptop which came bundled with Vista, and I spent FAR TOO LONG trying to find the new locations for various settings when I was hooking up his WLAN (not to mention the STILL-insane reboot times, and -- hey, wait, we STILL have to reboot when changing some simple things? Argh!). Why move well-known locations of things? Oh right, because it has to appear that SOMETHING has changed to merit one's hard-earned dollars. :-b
  
  Thanks, but I'm sticking with a combo of XP and *NIX-based systems.
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  Bob Caswell

  11 months ago

  Well, that didn't take long... I was wondering if I'd get the "but you work for Microsoft" rhetoric. All your points seem valid to me, b. But I actually switched to Vista because I wanted to (well before I started work at Microsoft, btw) and for lots of features that don't exist in XP.
  
  I could go into detail, but what's the point? We both have anecdotal experiences that made us go different routes. The real point is that neither of us can say for sure that our experiences in the past are basis enough for what we think would be the experiences for anyone else now. And Microsoft pointed that out in its experiment.
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  Kole McRae

  11 months ago

  Notes: People say it makes Microsoft customers feel stupid, will that sell?
  
  Counternote: So the Mac versus PC ads don’t make PC users feel like idiots?
  
  Note: IT was shown on a slick new machine that of course will make vista look good.
  
  Counter note: it was shown on a machine with 2 gigs of ram and a ducore processor… which is average for a new computer.
  
  Note: what about users with old computers?
  
  Counternote: That’s like asking why you can’t play wii baseball on your old Nintendo 64… it’s a new generation of software for a new generation of computers.
  
  Note: it was a guided demonstration which can make anything look good.
  
  Counternote: Without the guided demonstration people may never notice a lot of the cool little features available.
  
  Note: These are average users who won't notice the problems with drivers etc.
  
  counternote: Vista is made to appeal to the average person, not a computer geek... thats what linux is for.
  
  Kole McRae - Style, Wit and Results - Kole is a writer who sees the world a bit differently.
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