Re: Vista??
- From: S. Smith <scott.smith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:03:46 -0600
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:39:46 -0800 (PST), Psalm Nuclei
<meatnub@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 21, 2:32 pm, S. Smith <scott.sm...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:12:14 -0600, Frank McCoy <mcc...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Vista has all the earmarks of being the worst OS since Windows Me; and
maybe even worse. That seems hard-to-do, considering how abominable Me
was. ;-{
I presume that if you stick to your very narrow range of newer games and
don't try to run older software, Vista might actually seem to be an
improvement ... to you. That being what it was designed for.
*Most* people however, prefer to have an operating-system that's
compatible with the software they already have; since that's where their
major investment in a computer is; not just the latest version of one
particular game. And THERE, Vista sucks royally.
I presume if you're just planning on using Vista as a gaming platform
and ONLY for the latest and greatest of games; with perhaps adding
*only* Microsoft products (like Office and that worst-of-all-possible
software: Outlook) for anything else, then Vista might possibly actually
*be* your best bet.
The rest of us who plan on using our machines for other things or
already have better software than Microsoft supplies, will also continue
to use other (and better) operating systems (yes, including Microsoft
Windows XP in various flavors).
Get it through your head: It ain't *Microsoft* we're disparaging here,
but that abomination they made of Vista; where the previous offering
(Windows XP) was several orders of magnitude *better* than what they
offer now as "standard".
At some point you have to let go of your old DOS and Windows 3.11
programs and move on to newer (and often improved) software. The
same goes for old and outdated hardware components. Generally, the
shelf life of software and hardware is about 3-5 years before updates
or newer versions are *needed*, IMO.
And FYI, almost all of my older XP games and software run fine under
Vista. Some requiring minor tweaks, but nothing very daunting to do.
I had my old XP box up and running for over 5 years, but it was at
the end of it's meaningful life at that point, IMO. It was time to
update hardware/software with a new system. Installing Vista
clean on the new system was the best option, IMO.
I have Vista running flawlessly, and even run the virtual operating
systems of Solaris 10 Unix and Ubuntu Linux under Vista without
a single problem.
What programs, exactly, are you having so much trouble running
under Vista? How old are they and are there newer versions or
patches that address compatibility issues?
I really don't understand the bitterness over Vista. It just doesn't
make much sense to me.
I don't understand it either. I understood the bitterness about XP
when that first came out - man, talk about driver problems!
To me, Vista has been the smoothest upgrade experience since owning an
MS OS. And that's before a service pack came out to boot.
I wonder if a lot of people give Vista grief because their machines
and software are just really old and are stubborn when it comes to
change? (i'm not making generalisations here, just saying).
I was stubborn at first - after all I finally had a stable OS in XP
and Vista seemed to come out so soon but I'm glad i made the switch.
Yes. I think just about any Microsoft OS takes about a year for
most of the bugs to get ironed out with hotfixes and service packs.
That's also about the timeframe it takes for hardware developers
to come out with stable and reliable drivers for new operating
systems.
The main beef I have with the MS operating systems is their
myriad of security holes and vulnerabilites...but those can usually
be resolved by hotfixes or third party security/antivirus apps.
I tend to be an operating system junkie, and have run various
operating systems (both physically and virtually) over the years
ranging from MacOS, OS/2 and various flavors of Unix and
Linux. Microsoft does a lot right, and a considerable amount
of things wrong, but not much more than other operating
systems, IMO. At least Microsoft spends a considerable amount
of time working with various developers to fix issues, and they
do a good job of addressing security issues as quickly as
possible, too.
I honestly don't see Vista as being as bad (or as minor of a
release) as something like Windows ME. That was just a
glorified version of Win98 with service packs and hotfixes,
with a few GUI changes. I never even bothered with it. I
just went from 98 to XP.
Vista was a major overhaul from XP, IMO.
- Scott Smith: scott.smith@xxxxxxxxxxx
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