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Microsoft has admitted, in an email to the press, that 'some customers may be waiting to adopt Windows Vista because they've heard rumors about device or application compatibility issues, or because they think they should wait for a service pack release.' The company is now pleading with customers not to wait until the release of SP1 at the end of the year, launching a 'fact rich' program to try to convince them to 'proceed with confidence'. The announcement coincides with an embarrassing double-backflip: Microsoft had pre-briefed journalists that it was going to allow home users to run Vista basic and premium under virtual machines like VMWare, but it changed its mind at the last minute and pulled the announcement.

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Stuff like this pisses me off. I'm tech-savvy enough to never buy a p.c. with that piece of crap on it. Though there are a lot of people who get a new computer, get a bunch of tech talk, and have fallen into buying a tower or laptop running that worthless operating system. Then what you have is a backup drivers disc given to you, with the computer, that ONLY has hardware drivers for Vista.. so only tech savvy people (who no doubt will be frustrated) would have to find hardware drivers for each piece of hardware (IF they exist) for Windows XP.

Then my friends and I have people we know, who bought p.c.'s with Vista and want us to help fix problems.. I don't even want to fill my head with information on that O.S. it's obvious if companies don't want to use it, and it's made by someone as enormously huge as Microsoft, there's something wrong big-time. XP itself is pretty worthless without the service packs, which take an eternity to download on most standard connections.. Microsoft should spend less time trying to make their Operating Systems more pretty and full of user-friendly gadgets, but that's just my geek rant..

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I have two words for Vista. Piss Off.

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XP will be my last windows based OS ever (unless I'm emulating 3.11 for the hell of it). I'm about ready to make everyone in the family switch too. Sure the learning curve will be kind of high but it's not like they know shit about windows either.

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XP will be my last windows based OS ever (unless I'm emulating 3.11 for the hell of it). I'm about ready to make everyone in the family switch too. Sure the learning curve will be kind of high but it's not like they know shit about windows either.

Switch to what? Linux? Or Mac? Or perhaps Commodore 64? :thumbsup:

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  • 2 weeks later...

I still run Win98SE on my desktop since I can't afford to by XP Pro. I have 1 laptop running XP Pro and another running Win2000 Pro. Need to reload the Win2000 laptop since my niece got a trojan horse virus on it. Trying to track down a copy so I can reload it. She likes how it works. Would rather update to XP Pro but can't afford 2 or more copies to get keys so I do what I can. Have no interest in running Vista.

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I just bought a new laptop from Dell Hell. It has Vista on it. Trouble is, Vista is not compatable with the sound & video cards installed on the machine and the processor has "limited compatability". SO it runs like a piece of crap, I have no sound, and my graphics card crashes about once every 5 minutes. Dell told me to just wait for a service pack. I told Dell to refund my money. After almost 4 hours fighting with Indian people. It's getting done.

I'm then taking my cash and buying a new laptop... with XP on it.

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I just bought a new laptop from Dell Hell. It has Vista on it. Trouble is, Vista is not compatable with the sound & video cards installed on the machine and the processor has "limited compatability". SO it runs like a piece of crap, I have no sound, and my graphics card crashes about once every 5 minutes. Dell told me to just wait for a service pack. I told Dell to refund my money. After almost 4 hours fighting with Indian people. It's getting done.

I'm then taking my cash and buying a new laptop... with XP on it.

*Whispers* Get a Mac...

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I WISH. I am, however stuck in Dell Hell, as they are the only ones who will give me credit.... *sigh* My best friend just got a new Mac and it's amazing!

Heh. I think they'll give credit to anyone. Even me!! (I got one of their 24" monitors)

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