Microsoft & Window Vista

After recommending a Dell PC w/ Windows Vista to my sister, I feel she has
the right to shoot me. I have always liked Dell, but never liked Microsoft's
Support (none without paying). This new OS is the last straw. A person would
spend as much as what the MS founders are worth, just paying for support to
get everything working with Vista (unless you buy all new hardware that
you're sure is compatable with it). I know the next time I need a PC, I will
NOT get Vista, and will probably get a Mac. MS sucks, and doesn't care about
the customer.

The time you wasted typing that rant, you could have tried explaining
exactly what the problem is instead of complaining. Unfortunately we can't
help you at the moment if you don't tell us what the problem is.
--
Andre
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My Vista Quickstart Guide:
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"DaRichGitRicher" <DaRichGitRicher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:B938EF74-DCB4-44C0-BF94-C027D82E4D49@microsoft.com...
> After recommending a Dell PC w/ Windows Vista to my sister, I feel she has
> the right to shoot me. I have always liked Dell, but never liked
> Microsoft's
> Support (none without paying). This new OS is the last straw. A person
> would
> spend as much as what the MS founders are worth, just paying for support
> to
> get everything working with Vista (unless you buy all new hardware that
> you're sure is compatable with it). I know the next time I need a PC, I
> will
> NOT get Vista, and will probably get a Mac. MS sucks, and doesn't care
> about
> the customer.

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:20:05 -0800, DaRichGitRicher wrote:

> After recommending a Dell PC w/ Windows Vista to my sister, I feel she has
> the right to shoot me. I have always liked Dell, but never liked Microsoft's
> Support (none without paying). This new OS is the last straw. A person would
> spend as much as what the MS founders are worth, just paying for support to
> get everything working with Vista (unless you buy all new hardware that
> you're sure is compatable with it). I know the next time I need a PC, I will
> NOT get Vista, and will probably get a Mac. MS sucks, and doesn't care about
> the customer.

DELL also sells computers with xp and Ubuntu Linux installed.

DaRichGitRicher wrote:
> After recommending a Dell PC w/ Windows Vista to my sister, I feel
> she has the right to shoot me. I have always liked Dell, but never
> liked Microsoft's Support (none without paying). This new OS is the
> last straw. A person would spend as much as what the MS founders are
> worth, just paying for support to get everything working with Vista
> (unless you buy all new hardware that you're sure is compatable with
> it). I know the next time I need a PC, I will NOT get Vista, and will
> probably get a Mac. MS sucks, and doesn't care about the customer.

But your sister loves Vista, right?

"DaRichGitRicher" <DaRichGitRicher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> get everything working with Vista (unless you buy all new hardware that
> you're sure is compatable with it). I know the next time I need a PC, I
> will

The "brand-new hardware" thing is utter nonsense. My system's fairly old,
other than my video card, and Vista runs perfectly fine on it. Here are the
specs:

-- AMD Athlon XP 2600+ processor
-- 2GB RAM
-- cheap budget Biostar motherboard, with BIOS that hasn't had an update
since 2003
-- ATI Radeon X1600 video card (2 years old)
-- 2 hard drives -- 40 GB and 80 GB
-- a D-Link network card of some sort

As you can see, not exactly stellar or state-of the art, but Vista had no
trouble installing and running on it. Maybe your problem is with all the
extraneous and unnecessaary crap that manufacturers like Dell insist
installing along with the OS on their machines.

maybe wiping the system and doing a plain vanilla Vista install, just the
OS, nothing else, will help.

DaRichGitRicher wrote:
> After recommending a Dell PC w/ Windows Vista to my sister, I feel she has
> the right to shoot me. I have always liked Dell, but never liked Microsoft's
> Support (none without paying). This new OS is the last straw. A person would
> spend as much as what the MS founders are worth, just paying for support to
> get everything working with Vista (unless you buy all new hardware that
> you're sure is compatable with it). I know the next time I need a PC, I will
> NOT get Vista, and will probably get a Mac. MS sucks, and doesn't care about
> the customer.



How is it Microsoft's fault that *you* recommended your sister get a
computer with a new OS without bothering to check if her existing
hardware peripherals were Vista-compatible? You are correct in that
your sister has every right to be angry at you (and at herself for
delegating the decision to someone unqualified to make it, of course).


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My system is three years old, not exactly state of the art anymore, and
Vista works well for me. The transition from XP to Vista saw only three
programs go to the dogs. One was Nero 6, and the other two were little
applications I hardly used that would not play ball with Vista dual
displays.

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you sort them out..

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"DaRichGitRicher" <DaRichGitRicher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:B938EF74-DCB4-44C0-BF94-C027D82E4D49@microsoft.com...
> After recommending a Dell PC w/ Windows Vista to my sister, I feel she has
> the right to shoot me. I have always liked Dell, but never liked
> Microsoft's
> Support (none without paying). This new OS is the last straw. A person
> would
> spend as much as what the MS founders are worth, just paying for support
> to
> get everything working with Vista (unless you buy all new hardware that
> you're sure is compatable with it). I know the next time I need a PC, I
> will
> NOT get Vista, and will probably get a Mac. MS sucks, and doesn't care
> about
> the customer.

DaRichGitRicher <DaRichGitRicher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>After recommending a Dell PC w/ Windows Vista to my sister, I feel she has
>the right to shoot me. I have always liked Dell, but never liked Microsoft's
>Support (none without paying).

Dell computers come with an OEM version of the operating system.
You're right, Microsoft does not support OEM software, that support is
supposed to come form the OEM. Dell doesn't do a very good job of
supporting the OS, you're also right about that. It's bad enough
trying to get satisfaction for a hardware problem, they really don't
want to talk about software.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(Shell/User)
Slattery_T@bls.gov
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt