Journal paganizer's Journal: The morality of working with Vista 2
I've been in one field or the other of computer oriented support and/or operating since 1987; Over the years I've made myself familiar with most commonly used operating systems, from DOS to Solaris to OS/2 to Slackware to Windows 2000.
One of the ways I've done this with Microsoft products is by being a MSDN member, and getting and testing Alpha's & Beta's of the various releases; That's why I was was pushing OS/2 Warp over Win95, condemned them before it came out for WinME, and was pretty darned happy when Windows 2000 was released.
I steered people away from XP as long as I could, until it became apparent that Win2k was not going to be easily available; Luckily SP2 for XP had been released by then, and XP (or, as I like to think of it, Win2k Plus! pak with DRM!!!) was usable.
I retired a few years ago, but still support some old customers; today I got my 2nd ever support request for Vista (Help! my DVD drive won't read CD's!).
I've done my due diligence on Vista, and it is a pure crapfest of epic proportions; I doubt seriously that any amount of service packs will ever make it usable.
My first thought was just to tell them they screwed themselves, but then I suggested that they take it back to the place they bought it each and every time they had a problem.
The long winded prelude leads to this: What is the best way to deal with Vista? Would the best course be to try to fix it's myriad problems, or to try to do something that would fix the problem that Vista is?
Vista? First you get some matches... (Score:1)
Lisa
There's only one real cure for stupidity.....
Vista on a Laptop (Score:2)
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