On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:11:03 +0200, High Plains Thumper wrote:
> Marti advised me on this one and I have used Vista for a few days now and I
> just love it, fscking WOW!! In June, my Ubuntu computer had seen its last
> leg, so I bought a new computer with Vista Ultimate loaded onto it. I
> purchased the Vista Ultimate edition because I upgraded my computer
> requirements due some increased job requirements. The first problem I had
> was the HP scanner I had now didn't work. This was not surprising because it
> was an old scanner to begin with. My older HP ink jet printer did have a
> updated driver and works fine. The only other problem I encountered was one
> specialized software program, a genealogy program didn't have any Vista
> driver updates but it worked fine (I have since bought a new version written
> with Vista). I have to say my overall experience with Vista has been
> completely positive. It doesn't crash or freeze as often as Ubuntu or most
> Linux distro's and when it does, you can recover right back to where you
> were in the program. My DSL connection was a breeze to connect, Vista even
> made all the connections for me intuitively - I didn't need to jump in and
> input all the server addresses, etc. I suppose my need for a high-end
> computer has made a difference for me because that plays to Vista's
> strength. But I have purchased a laptop for my mother to stay in contact
> with grandchildren in other states and it only has the Vista Home Edition on
> it. It also works just fine. I don't know what everyone is talking about
> when they start trashing Vista, I have had a *wonderful* experience. It is
> different and required a learning curve to relearn how to do things in the
> OS but that is to be expected. And I think that is what most people are
> complaining about - change. Vista is different from XP. But XP was different
> from Windows 95 and all the Windows OS's were different from MS-DOS (which
> was easy to use if you knew all the commands) but I don't think we want to
> start going backwards, do we?
So you adn Marti are back together again?
Great!
High Plains Thumper *Thumps* again!
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Moshe Goldfarb
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