Re: Windows Vista at One Year (Dark Side Report)

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:35:14 GMT, jimstevens
<jimstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[Default] On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 07:00:30 -1000, "Alvin E. Toda"
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Rumpelstiltskin wrote:

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:06:09 -0500, Gary <none@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:25:55 -0500, Jim Higgins
<gordian238@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A computer shop's sales pitch: 'We remove Vista'
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/130626.asp?source=mypi

fter reading today's story about Windows Vista's first year, reader
Bruce Finlayson of Seattle sent along this photo that he snapped in
October outside a computer store in Milford, N.H. ...

I made some calls to computer stores in Milford (pop. 15,000) and
confirmed that the sign appeared in the window of A&D Computer, across
the street from the town square. Shop manager Aaron Kaplan said they
were prompted to put it up because so many people were having problems
with Windows Vista, including compatibility issues with older software
and trouble adjusting to the interface.

I'm beginning to think that Vista was designed in
cahoots with various hardware and software
manufacturers to force us to buy new version of
stuff we already have.

I've got a good flatbed scanner that will not work
with Vista, plus several older software programs.

I suppose Bill Gates need some extra money for his
charities.


I still run some DOS programs. My computer bridge
game (Micro Bridge Companion) is one example.
Windows developers seem to concentrate on a glitzy
interface in preference to making a strategically
powerful game. I've never bought and rarely played
any of the wow-graphics shoot-em-up games that are
all the rage with the young whippersnappers, because
I'm such an old fart, so I couldn't comment on those.
The computer games I play are pretty much limited to
GO, "Litlite" (Scrabble), Bridge, Spades, "Wintris"
(Tetris), Crazy Eights, Gin, "Rattler" (an ancient
eat-the-dots-while-being-chased- through-a-maze
game), and Yachtzee. Of those, the Bridge, Crazy
Eights, Gin and Rattler games are DOS.

Noticeably missing is Chess, which I used to play a
lot in my 20's but which I've rarely played in recent
years. I still like to watch people play chess, but
it's too much pressure for me to want to play it
myself these days.

I have a computer Q-Bert game that I really like.
I was addicted to that game at amusement parks.
It's now unplayable though, because the graphics go
blank in an early screen if I try to play it via
Windows.

I used to "play" SimCity too, but I've gotten tired
of it. It's become Barbie-Doll-ish in that there are
an expanding number of accoutrements associated with
it these days, which puts me off.

I still use my windows 95 machine when the windows 98
goes down. Worried about upward compatibility? I worry
more about downward compatibility. Those operating
systems are no longer supported. I haven't bought new
s/w in years because so much is available for free
nowadays-- not that I use that stuff. Am thinking of
updating an older machine to linux and hopefully will
find much open source s/w to use... Tactics of the
retired to save costs.

There is nothing better then taking a nice box home, opening it and
putting the hardware together, pulling hard drive out of old PC and
trashing the rest of the old machine as crap that will take time to
keep going. I love it.

In a day when you can buy a Dell dual core machine for $500, it is
also a great way to spend more money. Considering the life span of
hard disks, using an old relic for more than data transfer is a
terrific way to lose data. As for Win 95 and Win 98, not only are they
vulnerable to every hack that the mind of an Albanian teenager can
devise, with an old processor and modern software they must take a
half hour to boot up. Other than that, sounds great! (-8
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