__/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 14 February 2007 08:50 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [ Tim Fairchild ] on Tuesday 13 February 2007 12:06 \__
>>
>>>
>>> Well, I don't particularly like to talk about Vista, but things don't
>>> look all that happy in Vistaland.
>>>
>>> A quick browse of microsoft.public.windows.vista.general shows a bit of
>>> trouble...
>>>
>>> Some snips, but you can click pretty much any thread...
>>>
>>> "Ok now I have had to reboot 5 times so far today to get back my internet
>>> connection. I have asked here as have many others. I called MS support.
>>> What a joke ... they are swamped with calls."
>>>
>>> "The text in Windows mail is blurred and unsharp..."
>>>
>>> "I recently purchased Vista Ultimate and installed it.
>>> Every time I try to activate it (by clicking on the link in computer
>>> details to activate it) Windows Explorer Crashes and restarts. No error
>>> message explaining the problem appears, and I cannot activate Vista
>>> Ultimate."
>>>
>>> "I have Recorded TV from MCE 2005 on another hdd. After the upgrade [to
>>> Vista], I can play some of these recordings fine but others get
>>> the "Restricted Content" msg, sometimes appearing randomly throughout the
>>> recording."
>>>
>>> "I really don't believe this, but when upgrading from XP with MSN search
>>> to Vista I get substantially slower search, with bad results;
>>> - does not index network drives (although they are added in search-CP)
>>> - very slow - you don't get instant results, but wait 20-60 seconds"
>>>
>>> "Microsoft doesn't even have support for the Zune (a Microsoft product)
>>> using Windows Vista. I tried to install my Zune today on my new desktop
>>> which came preloaded with Vista and during the install it said that it
>>> isn't supported on this version of Windows."
>>
>>
>> They still haven't patched this?!?!
>>
>>
>>> "I'm getting only 2MB/s on gigabit [network]."
>>
>>
>> Maybe the zombies are preparing for a DDOS attack, so bandwidth gets
>> devoured. 1 in 4 Windows PCs is a zombie.
>>
>
> Oh come off it Roy, it is unfair to say That many Windows users are zombies
> I'm sure the number must be less than that.
>
> Oops, sorry, I missread what you wrote.
Just in case somebody wonders (you've probably seen this already)...
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports. "Despite all that, the net is still working,
| which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient," he said.
`----
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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