Vista - What a disaster

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OK, the peanut gallery is awake. Time to leave. Have a nice life
kids.
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The main problem with ALL Microsoft "support" groups is they are
infested with way too many Microsoft butt kissers (ie MVP's) that
simply seem unable to give objective advice and generally color their
comments to favor Microsoft decisions no matter what. I find it
amusing, but also misleading, harmful and counterproductive. :-)

The reality is Vista follows a long line of previous Windows releases
that also were buggy, not tested well enough under real world
conditions, is overpriced, lacks imagination, contains flawed,
crippled or broken features, removes items that were hinted at being
included in beta releases or shifts wanted features to the most
expensive version and perhaps the worse thing, leaves bugs that were
reported in earlier versions of Windows with Vista adding many new
ones.

In other words, typical Microsoft software. Overpriced, not throughly
tested, not ready for prime time and sure to frustrate millions with
useless things like UAC that mostly gets in the way rather then
helping or offering any real security. Add in a useless Vista Upgrade
Advisor that lulls users into faslely thinking their system is ready
to have Vista installed when it often crashes in a BSOD due to driver
issues the Advisor claimed "shouldn't" be a problem, yes, it is fair
to label Vista as a disaster.

Is there such a thing as a Quality Control Department at Microsoft?
 
Adam Albright said:
The main problem with ALL Microsoft "support" groups is they are
infested with way too many Microsoft butt kissers (ie MVP's) that
simply seem unable to give objective advice and generally color their
comments to favor Microsoft decisions no matter what. I find it
amusing, but also misleading, harmful and counterproductive. :-)

The reality is Vista follows a long line of previous Windows releases
that also were buggy, not tested well enough under real world
conditions, is overpriced, lacks imagination, contains flawed,
crippled or broken features, removes items that were hinted at being
included in beta releases or shifts wanted features to the most
expensive version and perhaps the worse thing, leaves bugs that were
reported in earlier versions of Windows with Vista adding many new
ones.

In other words, typical Microsoft software. Overpriced, not throughly
tested, not ready for prime time and sure to frustrate millions with
useless things like UAC that mostly gets in the way rather then
helping or offering any real security. Add in a useless Vista Upgrade
Advisor that lulls users into faslely thinking their system is ready
to have Vista installed when it often crashes in a BSOD due to driver
issues the Advisor claimed "shouldn't" be a problem, yes, it is fair
to label Vista as a disaster.

Is there such a thing as a Quality Control Department at Microsoft?
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I think it's safe to say that bringing new products to market invariably
requires compromises in every aspect of development and production...
 
Adam Albright said:
The main problem with ALL Microsoft "support" groups is they are
infested with way too many Microsoft butt kissers (ie MVP's) that
simply seem unable to give objective advice and generally color their
comments to favor Microsoft decisions no matter what.
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They're also filled with Loonix wasters who have never even fired up
Vista but feel they can comment about an OS they've not used.
 
They're also filled with Loonix wasters who have never even fired up
Vista but feel they can comment about an OS they've not used.
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I've installed every version of Windows (including Vista) ever
produced on more boxes I care to remember so I guess I DO speak from
experience having suffering through nearly 20 years of Windows' bugs,
screw-ups, and just plain sloppy programming and reckless disregard
for their customers. <wink>
 
[email protected] said:
After spending 3 hours upgrading from XP to Vista I now find that
Microsoft Office 2000 doesn't work! Also, help files are no longer
working on any program.

And where the heck did they hide the display settings.

Morons at Microsoft strike again.
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They no longer ship the old help program with Vista, but it is available as
a download from Microsoft.

On the display settings, they are called personalization now, but you can
still right
click on the desktop to get to them.

On MS Office 2000 I have no ideas.

-- Larry Maturo
 
Vista blundered badly by removing the hlp app.. lol

newbie's need the help files more than anyone.. and MS expects them
to search the web, find it, download it and use it?

Who in MS had this bright idea???
 
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