____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 03 October 2007 18:57 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Windows Vista Rant - I’m Getting Mad
>
> Interesting typo:
>
> "Granted it had its minor quarks"
> ^^^^^^
>
> Hmm, we've had /our/ minor "Quarks" too. :)
>
> "but lately, it’s just been ridiculously bad, and I mean horrendous."
>
> Summary of grievances:
>
> . unable to open explorer windows - I click “Computer” and it pops up,
> then immediately disappears. This happens a lot and it happens not
> only when I click “Computer”, but when I try to open any explorer.
> . I suddenly am unable to right-click anywhere.
> . sometimes I’m able to open an explorer window, but nothing will load
> inside it. For example, I’ll either open “Computer” or “Music” and I
> know there are files in these explorer windows to be shown, but
> nothing loads.
>
> "I’m sorry Microsoft, but these issues I am having are essential Windows
> functions, that I rely on for every day usage. To be quite frank here,
> this is totally unacceptable to me. I’m not sure I can wait for SP1 to
> be fully released, and pray that it fixes these issues, when it might
> not fix them, I’ll be in the same place I am today, just wasting my
> time, while I am trying to get work done."
>
> What is it that DooFy keeps harping on about? To paraphrase: "People who
> need to get work done, must use Windows."
>
> Yeah, right.
I've read about worse Vista 'symptoms'. The whole thing is chaotic because the
QA is virtually inexistent. You can say that a product is made purely for
profit when a deadline, not readiness, drives its release (followed by a
$500,000,000 marketing/brainwash budget and draconian OEM policies).
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~~ Best of wishes
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