Have I mentioned I can't stand Vista?

Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
reading this newsgroup, because I am going to vent my gripes so far after 60
days of use:

1. Networking: No can do at all on my Office network; Period, End of
conversation! I have tried all the Troubleshooting suggestions and STILL
cannot get the computers at my work to talk across platforms (XP to Vista
and vice versa). Major impediment to our office upgrading any further.

2. File security: I have several games I transferred over from my XP
system to my personal laptop, and some of the data directories are NOT in
their proper place; instead they have been moved to a hidden directory that
cannot be found by other elements of the respective games. The games
running on my machine can find them just fine, the Computers that connect to
my machine (when they can find my machine on the nonexistent network)
cannot.

3. Admin Popups, even when I am already running as Administrator. Just
another way MS can annoy the heck out of us.

And I thought Win98 was bad. I won't say this is the worse piece of C**P
of software I have seen in 20 years of working with computers, but I would
be hard pressed to think of anything that beats it. Microsoft should be
paying us to run it on our computers, not the other way around. I finally
got so fed up with it I haven't touched my brand new Vista computer in 2
weeks

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"David Pratt" <> wrote in message
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> Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
> reading this newsgroup, because I am going to vent my gripes so far after
> 60 days of use:
>
> 1. Networking: No can do at all on my Office network; Period, End of
> conversation! I have tried all the Troubleshooting suggestions and STILL
> cannot get the computers at my work to talk across platforms (XP to Vista
> and vice versa). Major impediment to our office upgrading any further.
>
> 2. File security: I have several games I transferred over from my XP
> system to my personal laptop, and some of the data directories are NOT in
> their proper place; instead they have been moved to a hidden directory
> that cannot be found by other elements of the respective games. The games
> running on my machine can find them just fine, the Computers that connect
> to my machine (when they can find my machine on the nonexistent network)
> cannot.
>
> 3. Admin Popups, even when I am already running as Administrator. Just
> another way MS can annoy the heck out of us.
>
> And I thought Win98 was bad. I won't say this is the worse piece of C**P
> of software I have seen in 20 years of working with computers, but I would
> be hard pressed to think of anything that beats it. Microsoft should be
> paying us to run it on our computers, not the other way around. I finally
> got so fed up with it I haven't touched my brand new Vista computer in 2
> weeks


Personally, I loved Win98. I like Vista fine, but I don't do all of the
things that you do, so maybe that's why. I do hate the admin popups as well,
it would surely seem that one should be able to have an option to "do not
show this again" on many programs.

Cheri

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:06:02 -0600, "David Pratt" <>
wrote:

> Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
>reading this newsgroup,

[snip]

Nope. This is a P2P group.

DDW
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"David Pratt" <> wrote in
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> I won't say this is the worse piece of
> C**P
> of software I have seen in 20 years of working with computers, but I
> would be hard pressed to think of anything that beats it.

Microsoft Bob ?

How old was this rant?


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"Cheri" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "David Pratt" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
>> reading this newsgroup, because I am going to vent my gripes so far after
>> 60 days of use:
>>
>> 1. Networking: No can do at all on my Office network; Period, End of
>> conversation! I have tried all the Troubleshooting suggestions and STILL
>> cannot get the computers at my work to talk across platforms (XP to Vista
>> and vice versa). Major impediment to our office upgrading any further.
>>
>> 2. File security: I have several games I transferred over from my XP
>> system to my personal laptop, and some of the data directories are NOT in
>> their proper place; instead they have been moved to a hidden directory
>> that cannot be found by other elements of the respective games. The
>> games running on my machine can find them just fine, the Computers that
>> connect to my machine (when they can find my machine on the nonexistent
>> network) cannot.
>>
>> 3. Admin Popups, even when I am already running as Administrator. Just
>> another way MS can annoy the heck out of us.
>>
>> And I thought Win98 was bad. I won't say this is the worse piece of
>> C**P of software I have seen in 20 years of working with computers, but I
>> would be hard pressed to think of anything that beats it. Microsoft
>> should be paying us to run it on our computers, not the other way around.
>> I finally got so fed up with it I haven't touched my brand new Vista
>> computer in 2 weeks
>
>
> Personally, I loved Win98. I like Vista fine, but I don't do all of the
> things that you do, so maybe that's why. I do hate the admin popups as
> well, it would surely seem that one should be able to have an option to
> "do not show this again" on many programs.
>
> Cheri

"DanS" <> wrote in message
news:Xns9B8C935566440thisnthatroadrunnern@85.214.1 05.209...
> "David Pratt" <> wrote in
> news::
>
>> I won't say this is the worse piece of
>> C**P
>> of software I have seen in 20 years of working with computers, but I
>> would be hard pressed to think of anything that beats it.
>
> Microsoft Bob ?
>

You really should upgrade. Microsoft Bob is way old. Try Windows 98

DDW <> wrote:
>
>> Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
>> reading this newsgroup,
>
> [snip]
>
> Nope. This is a P2P group.
>

Does that mean that MS employees are banned here?

A quick search on this newsgroup brings up:

zachd [MSFT]
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
Tim Quan [MSFT]

...and they may be others that are not disclosing that they work for MS.

ss.

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:36:23 -0500, "Dave" <>
wrote:

>How old was this rant?

Sorry... looks like my NNTP server burped and sent me an oldie (or
Agent somehow collected an oldie).

DDW
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"Dave" <> wrote in news:erv568PcJHA.5092
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> How old was this rant?

The Date header of the OP says: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:06:02 -0600

hmmm, I wonder why I never saw it.
I figured it was over a month old, as I have WLM set to delete posts > 30
days old.
Perhaps the OP got caught in one of my troll filters.


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"DanS" <> wrote in message
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> "Dave" <> wrote in news:erv568PcJHA.5092
> @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
>
>> How old was this rant?
>
> The Date header of the OP says: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:06:02 -0600
>
>