[CTS] Re: Vista PC Downgrade to XP
- From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:56:38 -0600
Hal does the same as me - test drive a showroom model and then walk off in
dismay. I did that 2 days after it came out - was driving by a Best Buy and
thought I'd stop in and hassle the Geek Squad dinks and play around with
Vist-ugh.
Eye candy is all the advantage is over W2k or XP. I'm down to 1 PC with XP,
the rest (except my antiques that are way old or non Intel) have W2k Pro.
Windows 2000 was Microshaft's climax, they are spiraling down more everytime
a new thing comes out.
Experimenting on a serious scale now with Linux now that excellent projects
like Open Office.org, Joomla!, Firefox 2 and other open source items are
becoming very good products. Yeah I have to keep a boot partition with W2k
for Quickbooks but that's it. Even AVG has a Linux version out.
->-----Original Message-----
->From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
->[mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Hal Brown
->Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 8:00 AM
->To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
->Subject: [CTS] Re: Vista PC Downgrade to XP
->
->
->Maybe Windows XP is an upgrade for Vista.
->
->A couple of weeks ago I went into a store and played with Vista
->for about 45
->minutes. I tried both PCs and laptops with varying computer power. I know
->this is about as unscientific and subjective as can be, and its
->certainly my
->personal opinion.
->
->I think that most tech people will shun Vista. After all, what's so great
->about it unless you are just wooed by the eye-candy? I've read
->more reviews
->than I can remember, and all they talk about are how wonderful
->the zooming,
->translucent windows are. Even after only 45 minutes or so, it was
->beginning
->to piss me off and I started looking for ways to make it look
->like...Windows.
->
->For grownups, business people, or anyone who just wants to use a
->computer to
->get work done, there is no need for this expensive, and in my
->opinion useless
->upgrade. But, for new users, or people who like this sort of
->thing, it will
->become the standard just as Windows XP is now.
->
->Almost without fail, the articles and magazines I read glorify
->Vista as so
->much improved over XP that it is referred to as "a must upgrade."
->I've never
->been a conspiracy theorist, but it makes me wonder who is in bed with
->Microsoft.
->
->Hal
->
->
->On 03/05/2007 08:14 am, Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
->> A post from a local list I'm on:
->>
->> --------------------
->>
->> Anyone as disappointed with Vista as I am?
->>
->> Recently purchased a "Vista Basic" notebook for my wife, Toshiba. Only
->> did so for the price (President's day sale) with the thought of loading
->> XP. Turns out this is a Vista only notebook as there are no XP drivers
->> and of course Toshiba has spec'd propritary hardware. Drivers direct
->> from ATI and others don't work.
->> Hours/Days later with a clean install of Vista Business and Office 2007
->> the hardware barely runs the software even will all the fluff turned
->> off. This is only half the battle. I have disabled UAC, etc but Vista
->> still gets in the way.
->> Long story short, I'm all in favor of principle of least privedge but...
->> If I'm using my domain admin account, I want to be an admin. To my way
->> of thinking, MS will need to release a hot fix or SP if they ever want a
->> business to adopt this. I have no time to deal with this getting in the
->> way at my place of business nor could I afford to spec each and every
->> desktop and notebook with 2GB of memory.
->>
->> -----------------------------------------------
->>
->> I see a trend going on here....... :-O
->>
->> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 04:06:05 -0800 (PST), Ray Roney
-><qix_68@xxxxxxxxx> took
->time to say the following:
->> > I just want to know if this guy was just BS'ing me to get me
->> > to buy a Vista PC (Which I can't stand Vista until they get
->> > the bugs worked out --OR-- SP1 (whichever one comes first)).
->> > Thanks... :)
->> >
->> > -- Ray --
->>
->> For what is a man, what has he got?
->> If not himself, then he has naught
->> To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels
->>
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