My two cents: The problems Vista has caused are absolutely not worth the
little, useless, added bells and whistles they added. None of my DOS
programs will run on Vista either, and networking is a nightmare.
Fred
"Nogginsaked" <fac_187@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I open an Excel spreadsheet stored on one Vista machine on a second.
> I cannot save the document because first it says it is read only (the
> original is NOT read only).
> I can not save the document back on the first machine with a different
> name (e.g. vista sucks) because it says I do not have permission. However
> the sharing on the first machine says I have full privileges for opening
> and saving.
> What a piece of crap this OS is. There is no reason for needlessly
> complicating simple peer to peer networking with this layer of useless
> non-security crud. It is obvious why businesses will not use the
> abomination that is Vista.
> I went through all the permission crap last week and it all worked fine.
> Nothing has changed and now nothing works.
> This is the reality of Vista.
> I have been using Windows since it was DOS. If I did not have dedicated
> Windows business software I would switch to the Mac. I've had it.