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Re: [News] Vista's Extend and Extinguish Approach to CD Burning (with Screenshots)

On 2007-04-09, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> [Richard mentioned it the other day. Here are some more details]
>
> DVD Burning Problem in Windows Vista
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The hardware install went fine. However I soon ran into problems
>| with the software install. The drive included OEM versions of Nero
>| and Power CD both programs are (or were) it seems incompatible with Vista. 
>| This I'm finding is an increasingly common problem and very frustrating. I
>| don't know who is to blame for this, Microsoft or the developers, but
>| almost all the software I've tried to install had thrown up some
>| problems. iTunes is particulalry frustrating but thats another issue.
>| 
>| [...]
>| 
>| I then realised that hidden away in the burn DVD dialog box is an
>| option to change the default formating of the disk.
> `----
>
> http://cwebster.net/2007/04/08/dvd-burning-problem-in-windows-vista/
>
> As the screenshot shows, Vista _by default_ uses a format that "might not be
> readable on operating systems before Windows XP". Isn't that just lovely?

I bet the Wintards who hang here have plenty of apologies for this one.

No doubt this is just the feeeeechure users have been begging to have
for years: the capability of burning CDs/DVD/s they can't give to
anybody they know or work with.

-- 
A Microsoft Certified System Engineer is to information technology
as a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to the culinary arts.

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