Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 18:18 : \____
>
>> waterskidoo <water.skidoo@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> On 2007-08-06, Brett Ryan <bsryan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> And this is a suprise? Everyone that I know who has worked with Vista
>>>> have not had a good thing to say about it. That includes ISP's,
>>>> hardware vendors, application vendors. It's a mess.
>>>>
>>>> Brett
>>>
>>> Same experiences from my little world as well.
>>> I had one friend who was a die hard hold out and now
>>> even he has moved back to XP which makes every single one
>>> of my friends XP refugees. Some are trying out Linux but
>>> it's kind of a hard sell.
>>
>> Hehe, even with all those wonderful proprietary device drivers?
>>
>> The irony here is that had Microsoft been using open-source drivers,
>> they might have some of Vista working properly by now.
>
> Yes, Windows viruses are being developed in a truly open source fashion and
> they prove to be extremely effective. They also evolve to accommodate change
> (e.g. of signatures packs from AV vendors).
>
Microsoft really have been hoist by their own petard, though; if they'd
had more open-source drivers and applications, Vista would probably be
working and effective by now. I suspect that many of the first projects
to work on Vista will be the open-source ones which get ported (whatever
that really means in practice), since the programmers have a real
personal interest in proving that they can do things.
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