What an arrogant elitist post for you Richard. And how overwhelmingly
disingenuous and hypocritical.
What a "Let them eat cake" post from the psueudo-Windows aristocracy so
satisfied with their self important congrats and Hi Fives.
You posted:
"I have never seen as much BS in any other Microsoft newsgroup."
Give us a break. Many of us see the beta groups as well as help here.
Oh yes you have lol unless you suffer from convenient transient episodic
blindness because a ton of the same 'BS' is replete on the Beta Cafe and
General group and ectopic metastatic posts on specific issues are sprayed
all over the map on those Beta groups into every group but the one
designated for them.
Plenty of the same stripe of posts are in other newsgroups, and they are
replete and voluminous in the TBT groups as well. I see those and the
public groups. When they exist in the Beta groups they are much less
defensible because this group is supposed to have more sohistication and
more advanced use habits but that lol "ain't necessarily so" to quote George
and Ira Gershwin.
There has been incessant whining and embarrassing synchophantic suck up
behavior in the Beta Cafe and General groups equal to anything you describe
and all the more shameful because a lot more information is provided there
to these "TBT infantile and often lazy babies".
Lol do you think if you don't answer their questions one of us can't take up
your slack? That's halarious.
What you haven't posted is that
1) TBTs have access to more builds normally although anyone can get any
build that has existed with the exception of internal Redmond builds via
Torrent.
2) TBTs are spoonfed information that prevents them from asking some of the
questions that they would ask if they didn't.
3) TBTs have access to regular chats on a calendar and they get answers to a
number of questions but that doesn't prevent them from posting the questions
that have been answered in those chats sometimes months previous to their
post because they are too lazy to read or find the chats. Many of the chats
have been made public by Jill Zoeller [MSFT] and nearly all are available on
scattered web sites but MSFT has been so primitive and extremelyt lazy so
far in posting relevant in depth info on Vista on MSFT's site that they
haven't shown up there.
Aside from the scant Win RE blog there has been little information posted on
Win RE or Startup Repair anywhere nor has there ever been an explanation of
why Startup Repair is so statistically weak as to actual success when
compared with a repair install in XP--provided people even have a media CD
(XP) or DVD (Vista) to do one. MSFT arm twists the 300 OEM partners to
insure they screw their cutomers out of them.
This is the type of scant and superficial information made available by MSFT
on Win RE and none of it in depth is on any Technet, MSDN or other MSFT
site.
http://blogs.msdn.com/winre/archive/2006/09/20/763901.aspx
Dell has finally told MSFT to stuff it in this area according to their blog.
Dell tells me that Scott Di Valerio's team (he's an accountant with no
engineering background who is the OEM VP---and not one OEM system builder
exists who couldn't clean his clock hardware or software wise--his job is to
screw MSFT customers who buy OEM preloaded machines out of an OS on media
and he has had about 600 million susccessful anorgasmic screwings of MSFT
customers.
Bloatware, Operating System Discs and Dell Software Support
http://www.direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2006/10/17/3132.aspx
"Other users have expressed concern about not having the operating system
reinstallation CD when they need it. When ordering a new machine, all
consumers and corporate customers can opt for the Windows CD for around $10.
Additionally, since July 2004, most new PCs (Dell gaming systems all ship
with the OS CD)come pre-loaded with a disk partition that contains PC
Restore, an applcation that allows users to reinstall system software
quickly. See these instructions for how to use PC Restore to reinstall the
operating system and Dell factory-installed applications in about 10
minutes.
Update: Thanks to Direct2Dell reader Steven and a couple of Dell employees
for pointing out a mistake I made in my original post. When I wrote this,
the OS media was listed as an option in the configurator for $0. I mis-read
the number, and for that mistake, I apologize. Also, though this been in
the works for some time before now, it's now official. For U.S. consumer
and small business customers, all systems will now ship with an operating
system disc. This change will take effect in Europe by later next month. In
Asia, things are unchanged—we've always shipped OS discs with systems
there."
Richard lol thanks for the arristocratic sharing that "many of you have been
honing yur skills." Most of us are overwhelmed with such studious
scholarship and just awed by your focus and devotion.
We just wish we had 'MSFT insight' and the intimate command of their sites
and the awesome connection to Redmond you did, and could only find the
start button. Sharing your pearls from on high is truly impressive but the
depth and bredth of your knowledge is so intimidating only matched by all
the MSFT syncophantic Pavolvian behavior that can find no fault ever.
Getting enough Swag?:
CH
