Re: Simple Video Edtitng Software ?

"David Ruether" <d_ruether@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g7cc05$opj$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Smarty" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mj7mk.335$xv.246@xxxxxxxxxxx

XP with Office 2003 and service packs is substantially better than Vista with Office 2007 in essentially all respects, and I dearly wish I had the stability and ease of use they provided. This quadcore Dell will NOT allow XP to install and Dell explicitly disowns any responsibility for running it with XP...

Good to know, before buying it or recommending it...:-(

...so I am living in Vista hell until Microsoft figures out a way to make it work reliably.

At least on a Dell dual core, with the latest updates, Vista appears to
run well on a friend's computer.

The first 17 months have apparently not been enough time for them to figure out what is needed and how to fix it, incredible as that may sound.

Maybe they finally have...?

My "Teacher and Student" version of Office 2003 had used up all of its allowed installations, and I stupidly ordered Office 2007 never thinking it could be such a huge step backward. I now find that buying Office 2003 has essentially tripled in price since I bought it 5 years ago, presumably because the only remaining unsold copies are being purchased by users who are willing to pay a huge premium to avoid the bugs and learning / re-learning curve of 2007. I actually wound up buying a $30 "add-in" which replaces 2007 menus/ribbon with the older 2003 menus, and this has been a real improvement. I still do wonder why Microsoft never offered an emulation of their older version menus as a user-selected option rather than force all users to embrace a profoundly different and far more complex user interface. The costs to corporate users in wasted time and re-learning has to be staggering.

Yes. We were lucky to find a sealed copy of Office 2000 at a used
computer store, for $1. The same day, I found an SB sound card that
*did* work with my MIDI keyboard, unlike my expensive previous
card, and it was also a "whopping" $1.

Parallels with Tiger and XP is the last configuration I ran on my MacPro, and it was quite solid as was XP under Bootcamp. I would not suggest a Vista switch under any circumstances until Microsoft gets to at least Service Pack 2, possibly 3, and I can't imagine any good reason why I would want to switch the OS given how well Parallels unifies the two environments of OSX and Windows. Having both the Dock and Taskbar show up together and mixing both worlds is still a bit of magic I am very impressed with.

Smarty

XP was very solid for me until I ran into the problems with HDV and
Vegas, since solved with the new .dll file for Vegas.
--DR



David,

The absolute height of irony just occurred.....

I typed a lengthy reply to you itemizing a list of 10 reasons I hate Vista, specifically relating my continuing set of bugs and issues, and hit the "Send" button on my newsreader, Windows Mail.

The program froze, the send never happened, and the Windows Task manager announced that the program needed to be closed.

Although I was pissed at wasting 5 or 10 minutes of typing time, I had to laugh out loud. This operating system even knows when it is being criticized, and prevents such messages...............

I won't try to repeat the same lengthy reply again, but I will summarize by saying that Vista now at Service Pack 1 is well behind XP in all respects, and Microsoft should be ashamed of this product.

Smarty

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