Problems With Vista

Yes, I decided to do precisely that about three weeks ago, unless convinced
otherwise -- or at least until SP1 -- preferably SP2.

What GOOD Things does Vista do for you that XP Pro SP2 could NOT ----
meaning non-trivial fluff, smoke and mirrors things -- i.e., substantive
improvements?

Can you come up with TEN of those?

Thanks.

'Nuff Said.

DSH
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"Papa" <bikingis@my.fun> wrote in message
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> From my experience during the last 2 weeks, I have come to the conclusion
> that users should avoid buying Vista (or new computers with Vista
> pre-installed) for a year or so - until it is more reliable and enough
> time has passed so that compatible device drivers are more widely
> available.
>
> If you are thinking of upgrading your old computer to Vista, it may be too
> demanding of your existing hardware. Looks like a minimum of 1GB of
> memory, 2GHZ of speed, and 100 GB of hard drive space are needed for
> decent performance. The display adapter should be much more capable too,
> if you wish to take advantage of the Vista video capabilities. With new
> machines, hardware limitations should be less of a problem, but I still
> suggest waiting for a year or two.
>
> My 50 cents worth.

I agree, Vista offers nothing that is worth the expense, not only the cost
of Vista, but also upgrading the memory, video card and the various pograms
which run well under XP, but present a problem in Vista.
"D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, I decided to do precisely that about three weeks ago, unless
> convinced otherwise -- or at least until SP1 -- preferably SP2.
>
> What GOOD Things does Vista do for you that XP Pro SP2 could NOT ----
> meaning non-trivial fluff, smoke and mirrors things -- i.e., substantive
> improvements?
>
> Can you come up with TEN of those?
>
> Thanks.
>
> 'Nuff Said.
>
> DSH
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>
> "Papa" <bikingis@my.fun> wrote in message
> news:%23jBYIOwWHHA.4240@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>
>> From my experience during the last 2 weeks, I have come to the conclusion
>> that users should avoid buying Vista (or new computers with Vista
>> pre-installed) for a year or so - until it is more reliable and enough
>> time has passed so that compatible device drivers are more widely
>> available.
>>
>> If you are thinking of upgrading your old computer to Vista, it may be
>> too
>> demanding of your existing hardware. Looks like a minimum of 1GB of
>> memory, 2GHZ of speed, and 100 GB of hard drive space are needed for
>> decent performance. The display adapter should be much more capable too,
>> if you wish to take advantage of the Vista video capabilities. With new
>> machines, hardware limitations should be less of a problem, but I still
>> suggest waiting for a year or two.
>>
>> My 50 cents worth.
>
>

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote:

> Yes, I decided to do precisely that about three weeks ago, unless convinced
> otherwise -- or at least until SP1 -- preferably SP2.
> What GOOD Things does Vista do for you that XP Pro SP2 could NOT ----
> meaning non-trivial fluff, smoke and mirrors things -- i.e., substantive
> improvements?
> Can you come up with TEN of those?

Windows Vista
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Windows_Vista

Features new to Windows Vista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featur...o_Windows_Vista

Technical features new to Windows Vista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techni...o_Windows_Vista

Security and safety features new to Windows Vista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securi...o_Windows_Vista

Nope.

No Sale -- just to shuffle people off to bodacious marketing boilerplate
URL's.

TEN Good Reasons to upgrade from XP Pro SP2 to VISTA -- in bullet form, like
this:

1._______________

2. _________________

3.__________________

And so forth.

No fluff, smoke and mirrors...

"Transparent Windows" is not one of the TEN.

DSH

"mikk" <mikk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "D. Spencer Hines" wrote:
>
>> Yes, I decided to do precisely that about three weeks ago, unless
>> convinced
>> otherwise -- or at least until SP1 -- preferably SP2.
>> What GOOD Things does Vista do for you that XP Pro SP2 could NOT ----
>> meaning non-trivial fluff, smoke and mirrors things -- i.e., substantive
>> improvements?
>> Can you come up with TEN of those?
>
> Windows Vista
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Windows_Vista
>
> Features new to Windows Vista
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featur...o_Windows_Vista
>
> Technical features new to Windows Vista
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techni...o_Windows_Vista
>
> Security and safety features new to Windows Vista
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securi...o_Windows_Vista

The problem you pose is in part, while worded as if this is a simple
straightforward request, it really isn't. Face it, you control the
rules -- someone tries to respond to what on its face is a simple
request, but then you have the option (which you readily exercise) of
rejecting the response.

Ten good reasons -- someone replies with what *for them* represents a
good set of reasons and you (for your own reasons which for you might
well be quite reasonable) reject them as not being 'good' reasons.

The nature of your responses to those who have tried to reply suggests
that quite frankly, you are not *really* interested in switching to
Vista from your existing XP SP2 environment. No problem with that, (by
and large that's my own inclination at this point in time), but at a
certain point, your approach just might put folks off.


--
Barry Schnur