I run Vista Home Premium on an Acer Aspire iDea 511 only because it was
preinstalled, not because I like it.

Today I experienced something that I already experienced during the Vista
Beta. It was one of the too many bugs that were brushed off as either By
Design or Postponed.

Yesterday I put the computer into Standby by tapping the power button of the
machine once. This morning I tried to awake the system to no avail. Neither
the mouse, keyboard nor the power button would wake up the system. I had to
press the power button for a long time so the computer switched off itself
and I could turn it on again then. But now, although the computer is working
(I'm typing on it now.), I can read in the machine's status display "SYSTEM
IS SLEEPING".

What a joke. The gravest errors that were reported and voted and discussed
during the Vista Beta back in 2006 are still NOT FIXED. And you (=
Microsoft) are wondering why the adoption rate is less than what you
anticipated? Why numerous people and enterprises are going to skip Vista
altogether? Are you kidding me? Maybe you should have released this system
when it was ready and not when the boss of Windows deemed it to be ready.
I can see how in a corp like Microsoft pleasing the shareholders is
important. But if you can only do this by pi**** off your customers who are
supposed to make the shareholders happy by buying your products you have a
problem.

It will be interesting to see if you are doing it better in the next
Windows. I somehow doubt it.

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:22:29 +0200, "Thomas Adams"
<thomas.o.adams******.com> wrote:

>I run Vista Home Premium on an Acer Aspire iDea 511 only because it was
>preinstalled, not because I like it.

[rant snipped]

>It will be interesting to see if you are doing it better in the next
>Windows. I somehow doubt it.

This ain't an official MS site, so your rant will go unnoticed.

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:22:29 +0200
"Thomas Adams" <thomas.o.adams******.com> wrote:

> I run Vista Home Premium on an Acer Aspire iDea 511 only because it
> was preinstalled, not because I like it.
>
> Today I experienced something that I already experienced during the
> Vista Beta. It was one of the too many bugs that were brushed off as
> either By Design or Postponed.
>
> Yesterday I put the computer into Standby by tapping the power button
> of the machine once. This morning I tried to awake the system to no
> avail. Neither the mouse, keyboard nor the power button would wake up
> the system. I had to press the power button for a long time so the
> computer switched off itself and I could turn it on again then. But
> now, although the computer is working (I'm typing on it now.), I can
> read in the machine's status display "SYSTEM IS SLEEPING".
>
> What a joke. The gravest errors that were reported and voted and
> discussed during the Vista Beta back in 2006 are still NOT FIXED. And
> you (= Microsoft) are wondering why the adoption rate is less than
> what you anticipated? Why numerous people and enterprises are going
> to skip Vista altogether? Are you kidding me? Maybe you should have
> released this system when it was ready and not when the boss of
> Windows deemed it to be ready. I can see how in a corp like Microsoft
> pleasing the shareholders is important. But if you can only do this
> by pi**** off your customers who are supposed to make the
> shareholders happy by buying your products you have a problem.
>
> It will be interesting to see if you are doing it better in the next
> Windows. I somehow doubt it.
>

Looks like you got a piece of crap laptop.
Get a $1500 laptop( Dell's XPS line for one ).

--

"Hobbes" <Hobbes@Calvins.lol> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20080727091729.5bfee058@XPS-kubuntu...

> Looks like you got a piece of crap laptop.
> Get a $1500 laptop( Dell's XPS line for one ).

It's not a laptop but an Intel VIIV based MCE computer. Luckily I didn't pay
for it but was the "lucky" winner in a raffle.

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:27:06 +0200
"Thomas Adams" <thomas.o.adams******.com> wrote:

> "Hobbes" <Hobbes@Calvins.lol> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:20080727091729.5bfee058@XPS-kubuntu...
>
> > Looks like you got a piece of crap laptop.
> > Get a $1500 laptop( Dell's XPS line for one ).
>
> It's not a laptop but an Intel VIIV based MCE computer. Luckily I
> didn't pay for it but was the "lucky" winner in a raffle.
>

Huh...I didn't know Acer made desktops.
But the old saying "you get what you pay for" still stands.

Vista on high end PC's runs great.