Gene Fitz submitted this idea :
While I do respect your opinion, and your personal right to agree or
disagree with the Microsoft Corperation, or to agree, or disagree,
with those who may agree or disagree with the Microsoft Coperation,
I must interject this into the conversation.
I'm glad you did.
Progressive Realization's bad name comes not only from this post, but
from other posts as well. Saying you disagree with something is
fine. Hell, I can give a list of things that I do not like about
Vista, IE7, and Office 2007. the reason I don't post more negative
posts is because I don't have a better idea or a better suggestion.
Perhaps I shouldn't have posted in this perticular thread, I do see a
little troll here....
I offer help to people and ideas as I can, all knowing that I am not
a computer expert. the times that I do post issues is when I can
think of a realistic solution to offer.
Same here, I love to help out people and see their problems solved.
(dutch MS groups)
This is where I have issues with Progressive Realization. Complaining
does little good unless you have an idea, suggestion, or solution.
Like the kid in school screaming "School Sucks!" When you ask him
why it sucks, he says "because it Sucks!" Well, that isn't really a
good solution.
Agreed! (although school did suck... lol )
If you take the new product and try your best to find possible
issues, you are going to find them. Some may be big issues, some may
be small. And granted they are issues that need to be attended to,
whether large or small. Which is why this group was built. so we
could give suggestions, get support and post overall ideas. But here
lately, it seems to have become a warzone for the pro-microsoft/anti
microsoft people, or for the XP vs. Vista battle royale.
As with anything new, there are always going to be people who won't
like what they see, and sometimes rightly so, but what I think the
issue
is with a lot of people when it comes to Microsoft, is the fact it's a
big time corporation, who basically has some form of monopoly position
when it comes to operating systems. You hardly have a choice.
And as most modern applications are made for windows, moving to
Linux isn't always an option, especially for novice computer users.
But bashing MS just for being MS is silly, however I do think they are
shooting themselves in the foot -bigtime- with Vista's EULA.
think about this. 2 posts, saying the same thing:
"Vista is trash, aero graphics make my screen flicker when I run a
classic windows application! I am going back to XP, I suggest
everyone else do the same!"
"Vista Aero graphics is having issues, the screen flashes momentarily
when switching from Aero to Classic Windows settings. Maybe
Microsoft can build a patch to fix this issue."
The same issue with the both of them. One is progressive, one is not.
You're a 100% right!
But, I reacted to a post about Office 2007, saying I didn't like the
ribbon, because it takes me a lot of time trying to find the different
options, I got make out to be whining and more or less standing in the
way of progress. Some reactions to 'normal' posts could be a bit less
agressive.
Try this one on.
"I am having to remove Vista because it isn't performing like I
expected. Right now there are too many compatibility issues. Not
enough of my programs will run on it, and I am not comfortable with
the UAP, chiming in every time I want to make a change. For the
most, I like the look, but there are a lot of faults coming up on my
system. So I am re-installing XP until Vista has all the issues
worked out"
Again, it is a negative post, but it is progressive.
My point is this. We aren't getting angry with people because they
don't like it, we get angry with the way they voice it. If you don't
like it, that is fine, but if you are going to voice your issues, do
it in a manner that if a Microsoft rep were to see it, he or she
could see the issues, and who knows, maybe help with solving them.
Just a thought.
Agreed! Hope a lot more people take note!
Thanks for your reaction.
--
Mamamegs.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
(Adam Savage)
Nederlandse nieuwsgroep voor Vista
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