I calculated that to migrate to Vista or Windows 7 will cost close to
£2000

not including my time - It will take around 100 hours

This is because many of my existing software / tools / utilities does
not work on Vista

and the vendors expect me to buy a new license because it is a "new
product"
even though it does exactly what it did before - just on a different
OS

Even the products that do work have problems and glitches that have to
be worked around

All this takes time MY VALUABLE time

In other words I am suffering because Microsoft want money

In the past some versions of windows were worth migrating to
Windows 2000 and Windows XP were great



But most of the improvements to Vista / Windows 7 are mostly
transparent to normal users - even monster power users like me

I believe Microsoft have a serious attitude problem

just wait until they take full advantage of TPM to screw even more
money out of us

If I am wrong please point out a real tangible benefit that Vista or
Windows 7 brings to a large percentage of users

or to me

I also I can no longer buy a laptop because they only come with Vista
GPU drivers (some come with buggy unsupported XP GPU drivers - great)

"John Rivers" <first10@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:5ea02dc0-34ad-4a30-9bc1-ef026aba8d1f@newsgroup
I calculated that to migrate to Vista or Windows 7 will cost close to
£2000

not including my time - It will take around 100 hours

This is because many of my existing software / tools / utilities does
not work on Vista

and the vendors expect me to buy a new license because it is a "new
product"
even though it does exactly what it did before - just on a different
OS

Even the products that do work have problems and glitches that have to
be worked around

All this takes time MY VALUABLE time

In other words I am suffering because Microsoft want money

In the past some versions of windows were worth migrating to
Windows 2000 and Windows XP were great

But most of the improvements to Vista / Windows 7 are mostly
transparent to normal users - even monster power users like me

I believe Microsoft have a serious attitude problem

just wait until they take full advantage of TPM to screw even more
money out of us

If I am wrong please point out a real tangible benefit that Vista or
Windows 7 brings to a large percentage of users

or to me

I also I can no longer buy a laptop because they only come with Vista
GPU drivers (some come with buggy unsupported XP GPU drivers - great)


*******************************************

My benefit is this!

Since using Windows 7 I have not had one single hang or crash.

What more can I say?

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience & Security

John Rivers wrote:

<snipped>

Yeah, you can cry me a river.

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:27:19 -0400, Richard Urban wrote:

> "John Rivers" <first10@newsgroup> wrote in message
> news:5ea02dc0-34ad-4a30-9bc1-

ef026aba8d1f@newsgroup...

> I calculated that to migrate to Vista or Windows 7 will cost close to
> £2000
>
> not including my time - It will take around 100 hours
>
> This is because many of my existing software / tools / utilities does
> not work on Vista
>
> and the vendors expect me to buy a new license because it is a "new
> product"
> even though it does exactly what it did before - just on a different OS
>
> Even the products that do work have problems and glitches that have to
> be worked around
>
> All this takes time MY VALUABLE time
>
> In other words I am suffering because Microsoft want money
>
> In the past some versions of windows were worth migrating to Windows
> 2000 and Windows XP were great
>
> But most of the improvements to Vista / Windows 7 are mostly transparent
> to normal users - even monster power users like me
>
> I believe Microsoft have a serious attitude problem
>
> just wait until they take full advantage of TPM to screw even more money
> out of us
>
> If I am wrong please point out a real tangible benefit that Vista or
> Windows 7 brings to a large percentage of users
>
> or to me
>
> I also I can no longer buy a laptop because they only come with Vista
> GPU drivers (some come with buggy unsupported XP GPU drivers - great)
>
>
> *******************************************
>
> My benefit is this!
>
> Since using Windows 7 I have not had one single hang or crash.
>
> What more can I say?

Geez - I haven't had a single hang or crash in over five years!

I don't know John, what you acctually use your comp for???
Your story about windows 7 is nothing but funny.
All the best to you.

Originally Posted by Vjekoslav

I don't know John, what you acctually use your comp for???
Your story about windows 7 is nothing but funny.
All the best to you.

True, +1. People like John probably still deplore that the Cro Magnon came to Europe 35.000 years ago. They would have preferred the "cozy" Neandertal life.

Many of you are both irritating *and* boring

My mistake for posting in the wrong place