Paul
I remember people saying that they couldn't find anything, that they didn't
like the look of it, that their old printer or scanner wouldn't work, that
some of their old games were freezing on screen..
Upgraders complained that it needed too much memory, and that their video
cards and peripherals were not supported, that it filled up their 6gb
drive...
People were asking how they could put Win 98 back because it was faster and
they felt that they had more control over it.. that XP sucked..
OEMs were supplying machines that could only just handle XP up until the end
of 2003, mainly to keep the price down and catch as many buyers as they
could..
People were walking out of stores with complete systems only in as much as
they had bought printers, keyboards, webcams and joysticks along with the
main bits.. unfortunately, many of the driver CDs contained drivers up to
Win 2000, and some of the stuff was never going to work unless they visited
websites to get XP drivers which may or may not be there..
We have heard all of the 'Vista' complaints before..
"Paul" <p@p.com> wrote in message
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> Friday night I bought my computer after work, seeing the ad at Futureshop
> I had to have it. I spent the weekend playing around on it seeing what it
> can do. Although it is a huge upgrade from my Dell Inspiron P3
> 866/40G/512M/16MB video, to me it is starting to seen like a
> disappointment. Not because of the hardware, the remote control, built in
> cam, DVD burner and things are sweet, but the OS is starting to look like
> bloatware and is not what I thought it would be at all. Maybe that stupid
> score system has me less excited but that's what it did.... seems to
> happen a lot when I have any involvement with M$.
>
> ... guess I'll just wait till SP2 or maybe 3 comes out :) .... remember
> the excitement when XP came out!!
>
> --
>
> HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
> Vista Home Premium/dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17"
> widescreen
> ... and a whole wack of bells and whistles :) SWEET!![/color]
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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
[url]http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/[/url]