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09-28-2007, 09:36 AM
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mr_mischief writes
"An editorial written by Don Reisinger over at CNet's News.com takes Microsoft to task for the outright failure of Vista. He suggests that Vista may be the downfall of the company as, despite years in development, Vista was delivered to market too early. His suggestion? Support those who are running it, but otherwise ditch Vista and move on. 'Never before have I seen such an abysmal start to an operating system release. For almost a year, people have been adopting Vista and becoming incensed by how poorly it operates. Not only does it cost too much, it requires more to run than XP, there is still poor driver support ... With Mac OS X hot on its tail, Vista is simply not capable of competing at an OS level with some of the best software around. If Microsoft continues down this path, it will be Vista that will bring the software giant to its knees--not Bill Gates' departure.'"
Source: Slashdot.org
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09-28-2007, 07:16 PM
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Well, what's your opinion? 
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09-28-2007, 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Lyte  Hey Rack,
Well, what's your opinion?
Lyte | I had it installed for maybe a week. For one, I couldn't get my TV tuner card to work. Even with 4 gigs of ram I noticed it was such a resource hog. I tried for a week to tweak it the way I liked. I will be kind and just say I never got it the way I wanted. I would not be sorry to see M$ pull it from the shelves.  RIP
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09-29-2007, 05:50 AM
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Rep Power: 6 | Sorry to hear you had a hard time of it! No doubt, you're not the only one. I can't imagine them pulling it from the shelves though since one, they've got so much invested in it (e.g. advertising) and two, its already made them so much money already! 
Lyte
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10-02-2007, 01:25 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | You know, come to think of it, I do not know anyone of my friends that like it. Most of them feel it sucks up too much juice.
For me, my TV tuner card and Skype phone did not function with Vista. No drivers for either and M$ is not in much of a hurry to do anything about it. I love how XP looks and performs, but even XP is due for another service pack.
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10-05-2007, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by racknrail I love how XP looks and performs, but even XP is due for another service pack. | True dat! 
I'd like to get Vista just to play with it and report on what I find but it sounds like a big hassle and most aren't that interested in it... not like they were XP anyway.
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10-05-2007, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Lyte True dat!
I'd like to get Vista just to play with it and report on what I find but it sounds like a big hassle and most aren't that interested in it... not like they were XP anyway.
Lyte | Lyte,
I would recommend trying it, if you can get a hold of a free or cheap copy of Vista. It installs quickly and it is interesting for a couple of days. Just make sure you ghost your XP installation, as XP takes much longer to install from scratch.
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10-06-2007, 09:02 PM
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Rep Power: 6 | I may give a go but I'll partition my HD first so I can just go back to XP in a clinch!
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