Vista works for me and I could care less

Vista shows that those who run Microsoft are stuck in the Windows 9x
mentality of endless upgrade cycles. They failed to grasp that during the
adaption of XP, and as a result of the actually quite good quality of XP,
computers became a part of everyday personal and business life.
The arbitrary changes to the Mac platform have come home to roost: Adobe is
not working on a 64 bit version of Photoshop for the Mac OS because of
uncertainty about the platform. And Photoshop, if you are a moron about the
realities of color management like most Mac users-is the only dubious excuse
for the Mac platform to exist.
When Vista came out most people were satisfied with their XP software,
boxes and peripherals.
Users do not switch stable staples without good reason. Unless they are Mac
users.
There is no rational, in the sense that Economists define rational, reason
for the vast majority of the XP installed base to switch to Vista. There are
overarching reasons not to switch to Vista.
Despite Microsoft's lame crowing about stability and security the real world
experience of Vista, presuming it will work on one's
machine/network/installed program base, is not better than XP, merely an
arbitrarily different interface.
Interface changes are terrifying to those who barely can cope with the
interface they already use.
Add to that the fact that Vista does not work on a large number of perfectly
useful machines, is incompatible with some programs and vendors will not
supply drivers for perfectly functional existing peripherals and you have
the disaster that is Vista.
With the US economy tanking Microsoft is really going to face crunch time
with Vista. What business is going to waste money changing over to Vista?
The biggest thing Microsoft can do for Vista is to alter it to work with XP
drivers for existing peripherals and allow the XP interface to be used on
the Vista engine.
In which case they might as well ditch Vista and continue to sell XP.

"flaming-o" <> wrote in message
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If you *could* care less, that means you care.

"flaming-o" <> wrote in message
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With a nym like flaming, you're on your way to the crap file.

> With a nym like flaming, you're on your way to the crap file.

Why? He made a few relevant (and 100% correct) points. Vista works
pretty much perfectly for me, but there's no denying that it has been a
major headache for an awful lot of people and it's reputation isn't
doing MS any favors.

Not sure how anyone could argue with that, to be honest.

If you don't care, why did you bother posting a message.


"flaming-o" <> wrote in message
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> ...
> There is no rational, in the sense that Economists define rational, reason
> for the vast majority of the XP installed base to switch to Vista.

I am a retired Economist and I have never nor have I heard of an
Economist defining "rational reason."



--
Joseph Meehan

Dia 's Muire duit

"Lukan" <> wrote in message
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>> With a nym like flaming, you're on your way to the crap file.
>
> Why? He made a few relevant (and 100% correct) points. Vista works
> pretty much perfectly for me, but there's no denying that it has been a
> major headache for an awful lot of people and it's reputation isn't doing
> MS any favors.
>
> Not sure how anyone could argue with that, to be honest.
>


I would bet that Vista worked better for most people during the introductory
first year than XP did

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"Joseph Meehan" <> wrote in message
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>
> If you don't care, why did you bother posting a message.
>
>
> "flaming-o" <> wrote in message
> news:C2B73404-C39C-4EC1-95C7-...
>> ...
>> There is no rational, in the sense that Economists define rational, reason
>> for the vast majority of the XP installed base to switch to Vista.
>
> I am a retired Economist and I have never nor have I heard of an Economist
> defining "rational reason."
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Meehan
>
> Dia 's Muire duit
>
>
>

"flaming-o" <> wrote in message
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> Vista shows that those who run Microsoft are stuck in the Windows 9x
> mentality of endless upgrade cycles. They failed to grasp that during the
> adaption of XP, and as a result of the actually quite good quality of XP,
> computers became a part of everyday personal and business life.
> The arbitrary changes to the Mac platform have come home to roost: Adobe
> is not working on a 64 bit version of Photoshop for the Mac OS because of
> uncertainty about the platform. And Photoshop, if you are a moron about
> the realities of color management like most Mac users-is the only dubious
> excuse for the Mac platform to exist.
> When Vista came out most people were satisfied with their XP software,
> boxes and peripherals.
> Users do not switch stable staples without good reason. Unless they are
> Mac users.
> There is no rational, in the sense that Economists define rational, reason
> for the vast majority of the XP installed base to switch to Vista. There
> are overarching reasons not to switch to Vista.
> Despite Microsoft's lame crowing about stability and security the real
> world experience of Vista, presuming it will work on one's
> machine/network/installed program base, is not better than XP, merely an
> arbitrarily different interface.
> Interface changes are terrifying to those who barely can cope with the
> interface they already use.
> Add to that the fact that Vista does not work on a large number of
> perfectly useful machines, is incompatible with some programs and vendors
> will not supply drivers for perfectly functional existing peripherals and
> you have the disaster that is Vista.
> With the US economy tanking Microsoft is really going to face crunch time
> with Vista. What business is going to waste money changing over to Vista?
> The biggest thing Microsoft can do for Vista is to alter it to work with
> XP drivers for existing peripherals and allow the XP interface to be used
> on the Vista engine.
> In which case they might as well ditch Vista and continue to sell XP.
>
>
Maybe You Could Be Alias #3 And Join Me As Alias #2 And Promote Ubuntu.
Just FYI. Then Next Week When I Have A Tantrum, Install Windows Vista Just
FYI

I love Vista and it's the first OS I actually bought, rather than
getting for free w/a computer I bought from some store. Building my own
system and putting Vista on it is freaking sweet. No, it's not exactly
perfect for gaming (yet), but it's damn close.

The options and the interface = pure awesome. I actually free lance
computer repair, and before even -trying- Vista I was running it into
the dirt because I loved XP. Now that I made a dual boot with Vista, I
find myself only using XP when I'm in the mood to play old video games.


Vista is soooo much faster than XP. Even on my barebones setup, Vista
loads twice as fast as XP at startup, and as soon as I click something
on Vista, it's there. It never hangs, ever. The only time it hung up
on me was when I was trying to install and unsigned driver, and it was
my fault because the driver had notes that said it had instability
issues with Vista. I found a better driver and now everything works
peachy. I guess with Vista you have to work a little extra, but as far
as I'm concerned, it's well worth it.


--
Locke

"Lukan" <> wrote in message
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>> With a nym like flaming, you're on your way to the crap file.
>
> Why? He made a few relevant (and 100% correct) points. Vista works
> pretty much perfectly for me, but there's no denying that it has been a
> major headache for an awful lot of people and it's reputation isn't doing
> MS any favors.
>
> Not sure how anyone could argue with that, to be honest.

They said the same things about Win 2K and XP. It's the same old song and
dance. And if Vista has been a problem for a lot of people, they simply
didn't know how to drive, and they really don't know what's under the hood
of Vista that makes it different from XP.