__/ [ Nick Ballard ] on Sunday 18 March 2007 04:37 \__
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:30:55 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> 10 reasons not to get Vista
>>
>> ,----[ Gist ]
>> | 1. You don't actually need it
>> | 2. Cost
>> | 3. On that note, it's outrageously overpriced
>> | 4. Upgrading hardware
>> | 5. Driver support
>> | 6. Applications that don't work
>> | 7. It's a big fat target
>> | 8. UAC
>> | 9. DRM
>> | 10. The draconian license
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.get2tech.com/vista/10-reasons-not-to-get-vista/
>>
>> These posts may be repetitive, but calm could lead people to be victimised
>> by deceptive marketing.
>
> That one makes me chuckle every time I read it. Another chuckle I got was
> when I went to CompUSA today to browse their selection of laptops, and
> found a new ThinkPad running Windows XP. I think the other OEMs should
> have taken a hint from Lenovo.
It is not surprising. You can take the horse down the the river, but you
can't force it to drink. Several articles suggest that people either return
their Vista PCs to the shop or simple install XP in place of Vista (this
includes at least one Microsoft MVP). Eventually you end up with this:
PC Makers Hedge on Vista Effect
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| More than a month after Vista's long-awaited release, some PC
| makers appear in no hurry to retire from their product catalog
| computers running the old Windows XP.
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http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/businessnews/10344543.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
http://tinyurl.com/33azf7
Also consider a couple of popular open letters, one of which suggests that
Microsoft should take timewarp leaps back to *gasp* 2001:
An Open Letter to Microsoft: Re-Release Windows XP
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| It's time to sober up on Windows Vista. This just isn't working out,
| and your users are getting frustrated to the point where they're souring
| on Windows altogether. In case you haven't seen some of the more
| noteworthy blog posts on this topic, I refer you to Chris Pirillo,
| Scot's Newsletter, or Spend Matters. Or check out the recent bug
| reports regarding product activation and security flaws. This is all
| stuff I managed to dredge up that was written yesterday.
|
| People are unhappy with Vista. Really unhappy. And though I know Microsoft
| has its own form of Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, it certainly
| can't keep you from seeing at least some of the sobering sales figures and
| the crush of disappointing reviews of Vista. I don't want to dredge up all
| the reasons people are unhappy with Vista in this letter. I want to talk
| about what you ought to do stop a mass migration to Linux and the Mac.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/18428/an-open-letter-to-microsoft-re-release-windows-xp
An open letter to Bill Gates
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| Dear Bill Gates
|
| Give me back my weekend. I bought a new Windows Vista laptop -- and
| that's when the trouble began.
|
| [...]
|
| But what really grates is that your system is incompatible with two
| of the vital tools of my trade. Vista refuses to load the software
| for my newish Olympus digital recorder. And here?s what takes the
| biscuit. Vista rejects my HP IPAQ handheld device ? even though the
| software for that was created by Microsoft!
|
| So in order to put Vista at the centre of what I do, I would have to
| buy hundreds of pounds of new hardware.
|
| [...]
|
| My conclusion? For all the expensive and much-extended gestation,
| Vista was not ready for commercial release. And, just so you know,
| I've never once had a comparably horrible experience with the
| Google boys.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2007/02/an_open_letter_to_bill_gates.html
http://tinyurl.com/2tlc8w
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