Windows Vista Upgrade Frustrations
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| If you read our forums, you've seen many cries of foul over
| problems that our readers have had performing in-place upgrades
| from XP to Vista. It seems that the process simply fails for an
| alarming number of posters. I've always had luck with the actual
| installation of Vista over XP, but between this goofy display
| problem I'm currently battling and war I apparently lost trying
| to get PCMark05 to work, I'm starting to seriously doubt that
| I'll recommend anybody, anywhere, perform an in-place upgrade.
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2091592,00.asp
One major RTM delay was said to have upgrader problems addressed. Clearly, a
product which was not ready for prime time got unleashed onto the market.
The whole 'semi-based Linux' argument suddenly goes down the bin. Also,
hardware support argument which favour Windows are moot.
Related:
Microsoft Vista: Struggling to answer "Why?"
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| But it is shocking how poorly Microsoft is marketing the need to
| change. Even Bill Gates is struggling to come up with a real
| reason for people to move to Vista. I guess because there is
| no compelling reason, after all. That it's better than XP (which
| I hated - I quite liked Windows 2000, though), I'll grant.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/02/microsoft_vista.html
Vista: Where are the killer apps?
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| Then there are the vendors who say Vista is irrelevant to them and
| their customers. Officials with Microsoft CRM rival Salesforce.com
| said they have no plans to tweak their software-as-a-service
| offerings to take advantage of Vista or its Internet Explorer 7 interface.
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| "Vista is completely the wrong approach, from our perspective,"
| said Kendall Collins, senior vice president of marketing with
| Salesforce.com. "We are not doing anything about Vista. We are
| ideologically opposed to it. And we haven't heard much from our
| customers about IE 7. We are not finding many people using it.
| We will support whatever our customers demand."
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=225
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