Is Comcast more compatible with Vista?

A friend has a geek friend that says Comcast is compatible with Vista.

I have never heard that any ISP had an effect on there OS.

I think this friend of mine is being lead astray.

W. Kirk Crawford
Tularosa, New Mexico

You are correct. The ISP has no effect on the OS. Maybe you can try to
sell some beach front property in Vegas to him.


"W. Kirk Crawford" <> wrote in message
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>A friend has a geek friend that says Comcast is compatible with Vista.
>
> I have never heard that any ISP had an effect on there OS.
>
> I think this friend of mine is being lead astray.
>
> W. Kirk Crawford
> Tularosa, New Mexico
>
>

In article <u8n#>,
"W. Kirk Crawford" <> wrote:

> A friend has a geek friend that says Comcast is compatible with Vista.

I'd say the geek friend is really a dork friend.

Of course Comcast "is compatible with Vista". It's also compatible
with OS X, MacOS 9, 8, 7, and 6, Linux, BeOS, OS/2, Windows XP, 95, 98,
ME, 2000, NT, Solaris and countless others. These are just the OSes I
have personally run on Comcast.

Mike

Your friend is certainly being led astray.

"W. Kirk Crawford" <> wrote in message
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|A friend has a geek friend that says Comcast is compatible with Vista.
|
| I have never heard that any ISP had an effect on there OS.
|
| I think this friend of mine is being lead astray.
|
| W. Kirk Crawford
| Tularosa, New Mexico
|
|

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:19:52 -0400, Mike <> wrote:

>In article <u8n#>,
> "W. Kirk Crawford" <> wrote:
>
>> A friend has a geek friend that says Comcast is compatible with Vista.
>
>I'd say the geek friend is really a dork friend.
>
>Of course Comcast "is compatible with Vista". It's also compatible
>with OS X, MacOS 9, 8, 7, and 6, Linux, BeOS, OS/2, Windows XP, 95, 98,
>ME, 2000, NT, Solaris and countless others. These are just the OSes I
>have personally run on Comcast.
>
>Mike

Just another example of your persistent stupidity. You don't "run"
anything ON Comcast, you run Comcast under some operating system.

Thanks guys,

Kind of what I though. But you never know. Little things sneak up on you
if you don't keep in touch.

I have having a problem with understanding why my router drops its
connection with my laptop. Unpower the router, 10 seconds plug it back in,
and away we go.

Causes me to get up and walk over to the router. What a waste.

Thanks again guys. It has been fun.

W. Kirk Crawford
Tularosa, New Mexico

"Tom Willett" <> wrote in message
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> Your friend is certainly being led astray.
>
> "W. Kirk Crawford" <> wrote in message
> news:u8n%...
> |A friend has a geek friend that says Comcast is compatible with Vista.
> |
> | I have never heard that any ISP had an effect on there OS.
> |
> | I think this friend of mine is being lead astray.
> |
> | W. Kirk Crawford
> | Tularosa, New Mexico
> |
> |
>
>

"Adam Albright" wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:19:52 -0400, Mike <> wrote:
>
> >In article <u8n#>,
> > "W. Kirk Crawford" <> wrote:
> >
> >> A friend has a geek friend that says Comcast is compatible with Vista.
> >
> >I'd say the geek friend is really a dork friend.
> >
> >Of course Comcast "is compatible with Vista". It's also compatible
> >with OS X, MacOS 9, 8, 7, and 6, Linux, BeOS, OS/2, Windows XP, 95, 98,
> >ME, 2000, NT, Solaris and countless others. These are just the OSes I
> >have personally run on Comcast.
> >
> >Mike
>
> Just another example of your persistent stupidity. You don't "run"
> anything ON Comcast, you run Comcast under some operating system.

And you're just as stupid then.

You don't run Comcast on or under anything. It's a company that provides a
service which you have to pull in from them. You can do it in a variety of
ways using a variety of computers and OS's as long as they ability to to use
a protocol called TCP/IP and a connection to a Comcast server . Then you
have to have some application put all the 1's and 0' you suck up from Comcast
all together again on your end and display it using WEB Browser or News
reader for starters which you would run under under, or on, an OS..


Now don't you feel silly ?


>
>

A lot of dialup ISPs provide a CD to set up some things and 'brand' Intenet
Explorer so it displays their name prominently. This CD is typically
changed each time a new version of Windows comes out. If Comcast in this
person's area distributes such a CD then "OS compatibility" with these
add-ons might be an issue.

-Paul Randall

"W. Kirk Crawford" <> wrote in message
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>A friend has a geek friend that says Comcast is compatible with Vista.
>
> I have never heard that any ISP had an effect on there OS.
>
> I think this friend of mine is being lead astray.
>
> W. Kirk Crawford
> Tularosa, New Mexico
>
>

"W. Kirk Crawford" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks guys,
>
> Kind of what I though. But you never know. Little things sneak up on you
> if you don't keep in touch.
>
> I have having a problem with understanding why my router drops its
> connection with my laptop. Unpower the router, 10 seconds plug it back
> in, and away we go.
>
> Causes me to get up and walk over to the router. What a waste.
>
> Thanks again guys. It has been fun.
>
> W. Kirk Crawford
> Tularosa, New Mexico
>
> "Tom Willett" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Your friend is certainly being led astray.
>>
>> "W. Kirk Crawford" <> wrote in message
>> news:u8n%...
>> |A friend has a geek friend that says Comcast is compatible with Vista.
>> |
>> | I have never heard that any ISP had an effect on there OS.
>> |
>> | I think this friend of mine is being lead astray.
>> |
>> | W. Kirk Crawford
>> | Tularosa, New Mexico
>> |
>> |
>>
>>
>
I'll just add the following, as Paul Randall in this thread mentioned, many
ISPs have their own software. Hence, it's possible your friend was talking
about the compatibility of his ISP's software. However, I'm dubious about
his claims for Comcast's software, if it is that to which he was referring,
as well as whether or not he has done any studies or could point to any
studies that would verify that "fact."<VBG>

I don't think I've installed software from an ISP in over 10 years (And when
I did, it usually messed up my system, hence the reason I don't install such
software and recommend against doing so) and today, given the fact you have
an integrated browser, access to other free browsers, newsreaders and e-mail
clients and most ISP's have a site with instructions for setting up their
services on your system, most of which rarely require the installation of
any additional software, his statement would seem to have no validity.

--
Michael Solomon
Backup is a PC user's best friend
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