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Re: Why does Vista require Forums?
I appreciate the need of those who use social networking web-sites for solving their problems: to use Vista forums for chatting on their Vista problems. And indeed, Forums would be ideal for those who want to discuss the cosmetic features of Vista: Hey! Helen, how do you get such a glossy pink with Aero?
But there are others who have used Windows 95, then 98, then 2000 and then XP over the last 15 years and have invested lot of money in the hardware and software which they use for a whole range of pursuits from graphics, video and multimedia applications to finance and stock-market trading or accountancy and consulting for bread and butter of their lives. They think of migrating to Vista only because they are concerned that suppliers of hardware and software for computers may phase out support to their old XP compatible products and put users of XP in jeopardy.
For them, the problems of concern are how to make the hardware and software which they have with XP, work under Vista. And the technical issues which these problems raise are not solved by chatting. They need thoughtful consideration of options and exchange of information from their own experience. This has best been achieved through Newsgroups of Microsoft for the last 15 years.
And so the ideal solution would have been to keep a Chatting Forum for those who are getting introduced to computers through Vista or those who have enough funds to scrap the XP computers and buy new ones which open the New World of Vista for them with just the call of Open Sesame!
For those who want to struggle and understand how to do their bread and butter applications even after changing over to Vista, Newsgroups would be more appropriate. So why not just transfer all technical discussions to the newsgroups and leave the glossy lip-stick chatty discussions to one single Forum?
P. Jayant |