Joe
This is the point that some of us have made.. regardless of the bugs still
left to be sorted in Vista, 3rd party software and hardware companies have
failed us all..
"Joe Guidera" <jguidera-remove@msn.com> wrote in message
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> 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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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
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