Re: Camera Card Reader

HEMI-Powered wrote:
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Sorry, but if it is even minorly based on Vista, I want NO part of
it. I am NOT in the business of beta testing with my Visa card and
while I understand that you and many others say they've seen no
problems, I have many friends who are so angry at it's complete
inability to run certain key applications or certain legacy
hardware devices that they are paying extra to have XP retrofitted
onto new PCs.

If people want ten year old devices to be supported they may either need to find a device manufacturer who takes support seriously, or stick with their ten-year-old OS. I mean, there has to come a limit somewhere, doesn't there, as to how long it's reasonable to expect support for a device, and at the same time expect to pay the minimum up-front cost for that device. Would one really expect all OSes back to whatever, to be retro-fitted for support for the latest USB devices, wireless networking, iPods, SATA disks, Blu-ray or whatever? At least now, PCs are sufficiently powerful that you can run the older OS in a virtual machine, and keep some of the older applications running.

Microsoft needs to take a fresh page look at it's O/S direction and
get it through their think heads that many/most people have the
romantic view that computers are to do useful work for THEM and NOT
to play a hobbyist's game of "will this new bug fix really make it
work this time?" In any event, I would NEVER buy any all-new O/S
until at least the first SP.

I quite agree that for production work, waiting for SP1 is an excellent policy. However, that isn't a luxury which software developers can afford!

It's claimed that many, if not most, of the bugs are in the
3rd-party software including drivers, rather than in Windows
itself. I don't disbelieve that.

If people believe that, I have some ocean front property to sell
them in Arizona! Windows by far is THE #1 reason for slowdowns of
even fast PCs and the minor or catastrophic failure of hundreds of
apps, utilities, and HW drivers to work rendering it useless to
their users.

My comments aren't in any way a refutement of your opinion or
experience, David. They're only a statement of MY opinion.

Cheers, and enjoy your Christmas!

I appreciate that, Jerry, but you do have to ask: if devices from manufacturer <A> and application <B> can work successfully across multiple versions of Windows, who don't devices from manufacturer <X> or application <Y>?

Oh, and talking of slowdowns, one cause of this is the unwanted "demo" applications pre-loaded by Dell, Compaq, HP and the rest. On the PCs I have, I typically reformat the HD and install the vanilla OS as the first step. The you have all the stuff which users (or their family) download and never clean out properly...

Cheers,
David

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