Paul,
Not to pick to fine a point, but not all of it's FUD. To use your example:
I have a 6 year old printer upstairs that DOESN'T work under Vista and
according to HP I'm just out of luck (as they have no intention of providing
a Vista capable driver for it - Officejet 600).
In addition, I can easily find several business class applications on my XP
machine that either don't work or experience significant difficulties under
Vista (almost everything from Avaya for their enterprise Branch PBX systems
for example, Cisco VPN software - probably one of the most used VPN clients
on the planet - to name just two). These are just a few examples of popular
and/or mainstream software applications that don't work properly or
experience problems under Vista.
Despite the many years Microsoft was working on Vista, it just doesn't
appear that many of the third-party software vendors were ready (and I would
have expected companies like Cisco and Avaya to have easily been ready). In
terms of device drivers, I find it personally inexcusable that mainstream
drivers for devices such as those from the most popular graphic vendors (ATI
and NVidia) weren't ready on day 1 and relatively rock solid. That means
you have hardware vendors selling new desktop and laptop equipment WITH
Windows Vista containing devices that aren't yet fully supported or at best
contain "stop gap" drivers until the vendor can get a real driver out.
That being said, many applications and devices DO work, so all-in-all I
personally think it's worth hanging in there while the kinks get worked out.
J
"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
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> The reasons mentioned in those articles are FUD, DRM I mean come on
> debunked months ago, printers on XP machines not working? Get real,
> there's a 6 year old printer right here hooked up to an XP machine over
> the parallel port working fine from Vista.
>
> Windows Vista is far from sinking. According to
> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2 Windows Vista in its
> first month on sale over took Linux, Windows NT and Windows ME. At the
> rate its going it'll overtake Windows 98 in the next 2 weeks or so. Even
> if it slows drastically it'll still overtake Mac OS and Windows 2000
> easily by the end of the 3rd quarter.
>
> May be you should check the definitions on the word "sinking".
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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> "Pete" <Pete@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:etvpZgSXHHA.1396@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> The word on the street is that Vista is sinking like a rock:
>> http://www.dailytechnobabble.com/200...g-like-a-rock/
>>
>> http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/18085
>>
>>
>> Just for you MVP's...
>>
>>
>> -Pete
>>
>>
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