once i killed aero, indexing, and a bunch of startup programs, Vista perked up quite a bit for me. that said, i don't see it as a great improvement over XP. On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Beckett, William (Bill) < WBECKETT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Have to disagree. I run the business edition of Vista and explorer bombs > on me almost daily. Yes, most issues are with drivers for 3rd party apps > and that is a huge pain and a huge reason why everyone isn't jumping on the > bandwagon. However, while I won't make a blanket statement echoing 'vista > works terrible', I'll instead say that for me, Vista doesn't work so great. > > > > > > *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On > Behalf Of *Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms > *Sent:* Friday, September 05, 2008 1:38 PM > *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Microsoft Ad > > > > Seinfied only got 10 million. Remember my earlier post. It isn't > Microsoft's fault, Vista works great. It is 3rd party vendors who can't > seem to writer their software properly to work on it. Microsoft needs to > spend that money to engage these vendors and teach them how to write their > software to work on Vista. And the world would be a better place. > > Jim Kenzig > Blog: http://www.techblink.com > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So this is what Microsoft came up with for their $300 million campaign > starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. I kind of wished they would have > spend the money optimizing and fixing Vista. > > > > > http://gizmodo.com/5045703/the-first-bill-gates-%252B-jerry-seinfeld-microsoft-ad-makes-no-sense > > > > Joe > > >